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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.2.14.pr

Intestate Succession to Sons in Power and Repudiation

Passage 4417 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that the same rule, allowing a father and a son to repudiate an inheritance individually without prejudicing each other, applies also when an intestate inheritance devolves upon sons in power.

[PAULUS libro secundo ad Sabinum. ] §29.2.14.prIdem est etiam si legitima hereditas filiis obuenit.
[PAULUS in the second book on Sabinus.] The same is true also if an intestate inheritance devolves upon sons.

Notes

  1. §29.2.14.prIdem est — Refers to the rule stated in the preceding fragment (D.29.2.13.3) that a son in power or a father can repudiate the inheritance individually without prejudicing the other, and that both are permitted to do so.
  2. §29.2.14.prfiliis — In this context, it refers to the sons in power (filii familias), continuing the discussion of the family relations from the preceding fragment.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.2.14.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.2.14.pr

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