Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.4.14.pr

Possession of a Single Object and the Praetor's Edict

Passage 4528 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Clarifies that even though a part of an inheritance is not strictly understood to exist in a single physical object, possessing even one such item still subjects the possessor to the edict.

[IDEM libro secundo de testamentis ad edictum praetoris urbani. ] §29.4.14.prquamuis non proprie pars hereditatis in una re intellegatur.

[THE SAME in the second book on wills, on the Edict of the Urban Praetor.] although a part of an inheritance is not properly understood to exist in a single thing.

Notes

§29.4.14.prquamuis... intellegatur — The clause introduced by quamuis with the subjunctive intellegatur expresses a concession ("although..."). The legal logic here is that while an inheritance (hereditas) represents a universal collection of rights and duties, and therefore "a part of an inheritance" (pars hereditatis) cannot strictly and conceptually exist in a single physical thing (in una re), for the purpose of this edict, the possession of even a single item is treated as sufficient to trigger liability.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.4.14.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.4.14.pr

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