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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.4.18.pr-29.4.18.1

Multiple Heirs Discarding the Will and the Lex Falcidia

Passage 4532 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that if two appointed heirs discard the will and possess the inheritance as intestate, they are sued for legacies in proportion to their shares, and they are entitled to the benefit of the Lex Falcidia.

[IDEM libro secundo de testamentis ad edictum praetoris urbani. ] §29.4.18.prSi duo heredes instituti ambo omissa causa testamenti ab intestato possideant hereditatem, tunc, quia uterque praetorio iure perinde habetur atque si ex testamento hereditatem adisset, pro partibus in singulos competit actio.
[THE SAME in the second book on testaments, on the Edict of the Urban Praetor.] If two appointed heirs, both having discarded the basis of the will, possess the inheritance by intestate succession, then, because each is treated under praetorian law just as if he had entered upon the inheritance under the will, an action lies against each in proportion to their shares.
§29.4.18.1Admonendi sumus huic, in quem ex hac parte edicti legatorum actio datur, beneficium legis Falcidiae concedendum.
We must note that the benefit of the Lex Falcidia is to be granted to him against whom an action for legacies is given under this part of the Edict.

Notes

  1. 29.4.18.prperinde habetur atque si — The conjunction `perinde ... atque si` forms a comparative clause of condition meaning "just as if". It is accompanied by the pluperfect subjunctive `adisset` to express a hypothesis contrary to the past fact.
  2. 29.4.18.1Admonendi sumus huic — `Admonendi sumus` ("we must note") is a gerundive construction of obligation. The following clause `huic ... beneficium ... concedendum [esse]` functions as an indirect statement where `beneficium` is the subject, `concedendum [esse]` is the predicate, and `huic` (dative) depends on `concedendum`.
  3. 29.4.18.1in quem — The prepositional phrase `in quem` with the accusative relative pronoun `quem` means "against whom" in connection with the verb `datur`. Its antecedent is the preceding dative demonstrative pronoun `huic`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.4.18.pr-29.4.18.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.4.18.pr-29.4.18.1

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