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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.2.37.pr

Universal Succession to All Rights and Claims

Passage 4440 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that an heir succeeds universally to all rights of the deceased, including claims, and not merely to the ownership of individual things.

[IDEM libro quinto ad Sabinum. ] §29.2.37.prHeres in omne ius mortui, non tantum singularum rerum dominium succedit, cum et ea, quae in nominibus sint, ad heredem transeant.
[THE SAME in the fifth book on Sabinus.] An heir succeeds to the entire right of the deceased, and not merely to the ownership of individual things, since even those things which consist in claims pass to the heir.

Notes

  1. §29.2.37.prdominium — Syntactical relation with the verb `succedit`. While `succedere` normally takes `in` + accusative (here `in omne ius`), `dominium` (accusative) is also coordinated as the object of succession.
  2. §29.2.37.prin nominibus — The noun `nomen` (literally 'name'), in Roman legal terminology, refers to book-entries of debt, meaning 'claims' or 'outstanding debts'.

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