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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.2.52.pr-29.2.52.1

Entry by Son of Insane Father and Partly Conditional Heir

Passage 4455 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains the imperial privilege concerning an entry upon inheritance by a filius familias whose father is insane, and the effect of entry by a sole heir designated partly unconditionally and partly conditionally.

[MARCIANUS libro quarto institutionum. ] §29.2.52.prCum heres institutus erat filius et habebat patrem furiosum, in cuius erat potestate, interponere se suam beniuolentiam diuus Pius rescripsit, ut, si filius familias adierit, perinde habeatur atque si pater familias adisset, permisitque ei et seruos hereditatis manumittere.
[MARCIANUS, in the fourth book of Institutions.] When a son had been designated as heir and had an insane father in whose power he was, the divine Pius wrote in a rescript that he interposed his benevolence so that, if the filius familias entered upon the inheritance, it should be held just as if a pater familias had entered, and he also permitted him to manumit the slaves of the inheritance.
§29.2.52.1Qui ex parte heres institutus est pure, ex parte sub condicione solus, etiam pendente condicione, si adierit hereditatem, ex asse heres erit, quia solus heres futurus est omnimodo, nisi habeat in condicionalem partem substitutum.
A person who has been designated as sole heir, partly unconditionally and partly under a condition, will, even while the condition is pending, if he enters upon the inheritance, be the heir to the whole estate, because he is in any event going to be the sole heir, unless he has a substitute designated for the conditional part.

Notes

  1. §29.2.52.printerponere se suam beniuolentiam diuus Pius rescripsit — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction functioning as the object of rescripsit. The subject accusative of the infinitive interponere is the reflexive pronoun se (referring to the subject of the main clause, diuus Pius), and suam beniuolentiam is its direct object.
  2. §29.2.52.1ex asse — A technical term in Roman inheritance law. Derived from as (the basic unit of weight consisting of 12 ounces, representing the whole), it means "sole heir to the entirety" or "heir of the whole estate" (12/12).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.2.52.pr-29.2.52.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.2.52.pr-29.2.52.1

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