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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.6.36.pr-28.6.36.1

Multiple Degrees and Various Forms of Substitution

Passage 4308 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage explains that multiple degrees of heirs (substitutions) can be established in a will, and outlines various patterns of these substitutions.

[MARCIANUS libro quarto institutionum. ] §28.6.36.prPotest quis in testamento plures gradus heredum facere, puta: 'si ille heres non erit, ille heres esto', et deinceps plures, ut nouissimo loco in subsidium uel seruum necessarium heredem instituat.
[MARCIANUS, from the fourth book of Institutions.] Anyone can establish several degrees of heirs in a will, for example: "If that person is not the heir, let the other person be the heir," and thereafter successively more, so that in the last place, as a reserve, he may even appoint a slave as a necessary heir.
§28.6.36.1Et uel plures in unius locum possunt substitui uel unus in plurium uel singulis singuli uel inuicem ipsi qui heredes instituti sunt.
And either several can be substituted in the place of one, or one in the place of several, or individual substitutes for individual heirs, or reciprocally those very persons who have been appointed heirs.

Notes

  1. §28.6.36.prputa — The second-person singular present active imperative of the verb `putare` (to think), used parenthetically or adverbially to mean "for example" or "say."
  2. §28.6.36.presto — The third-person singular future imperative of the verb `esse` (to be). This is a traditional and solemn formulaic expression used in Latin testaments for appointing heirs or granting legacies.
  3. §28.6.36.1unus in plurium — An elliptical expression closely following the structure of the preceding clause `plures in unius locum possunt substitui`. It should be understood as `unus [substitui potest] in plurium [locum]` ("one [can be substituted] in the place of several"). The subsequent phrases `singulis singuli` and `inuicem ipsi` are to be interpreted similarly by supplying `possunt substitui`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.6.36.pr-28.6.36.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.6.36.pr-28.6.36.1

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