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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.2.43.pr

Inability to Acquire Estate Portions via Estate Slaves

Passage 4446 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Julian explains that an heir cannot acquire a portion of the inheritance or any property belonging to it through a slave who is part of that same inheritance.

[IULIANUS libro trigesimo digestorum. ] §29.2.43.prHeres per seruum hereditarium eiusdem hereditatis partem uel id, quod eiusdem hereditatis sit, adquirere non potest.
[JULIAN, in the thirtieth book of Digests.] An heir cannot, through a slave belonging to the inheritance, acquire a part of the same inheritance or that which belongs to the same inheritance.

Notes

  1. §29.2.43.preiusdem hereditatis sit — eiusdem hereditatis is a possessive genitive (or genitive of belonging) used with the verb esse to mean 'belongs to' or 'is of'. The subjunctive sit in the relative clause is a subjunctive of characteristic, defining the nature of the antecedent id.
  2. §29.2.43.prseruum hereditarium — The adjective hereditarius means 'belonging to an inheritance', modifying seruum here to denote a slave who is part of the estate before or during the inheritance process.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.2.43.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.2.43.pr

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