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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.6.37.pr

Substitution for Individual Children or the Last Survivor

Passage 4309 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains the difference in the testator's intention and purpose when substituting an heir either for individual children or for the one who dies last.

[FLORENTINUS libro decimo institutionum. ] §28.6.37.prUel singulis liberis uel qui eorum nouissimus morietur heres substitui potest, singulis, si neminem eorum intestato decedere uelit, nouissimo, si ius legitimarum hereditatium integrum inter eos custodiri uelit.
[FLORENTINUS, from the tenth book of Institutions.] An heir can be substituted either for individual children or for the one of them who shall die last; for individual children, if the testator wishes none of them to die intestate; for the last, if he wishes the right of statutory inheritances to be preserved intact among them.

Notes

  1. §28.6.37.prqui eorum nouissimus morietur — The dative antecedent (such as ei) is omitted, making the entire clause function as an indirect object of substitui in parallel with singulis liberis. The relative pronoun qui is in the nominative case as the subject of morietur within its clause. eorum is a partitive genitive.
  2. §28.6.37.prsingulis — The second occurrence of singulis is an elliptical expression with the main clause heres substitui potest omitted, meaning "(if he wishes) to substitute for individual children". The subsequent nouissimo shares the same elliptical structure.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.6.37.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.6.37.pr

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