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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.2.19.pr

Certainty of Testator's Death to Accept Inheritance

Passage 4422 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states that anyone wishing to accept an inheritance or petition for possession of goods must first be certain that the testator has died.

[IDEM libro quinquagesimo nono ad edictum. ] §29.2.19.prQui hereditatem adire uel bonorum possessionem petere uolet, certus esse debet defunctum esse testatorem.
[THE SAME in the fifty-ninth book on the Edict.] He who wishes to enter upon an inheritance or to petition for possession of goods must be certain that the testator is deceased.

Notes

  1. §29.2.19.prdefunctum esse testatorem — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction functioning as the complement of the adjective certus (certain). testatorem is the subject accusative, and defunctum esse (perfect infinitive of defungi, to die) is the predicate, meaning "that the testator has died."
  2. §29.2.19.prQui ... uolet — A relative clause with an omitted antecedent (such as is). The verb uolet is the future indicative active third person singular of uelle, expressing a conditional nuance that precedes the obligation in the main clause (debet).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.2.19.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.2.19.pr

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