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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.4.19.pr

Preservation of the Patron's Due Share as Sole Heir

Passage 4533 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is explained that even if a patron appointed as sole heir possesses the estate under intestate succession, the share of the estate that would have been due to him had he accepted the inheritance under the will must be preserved.

[IDEM libro septimo decimo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §29.4.19.prPraeterea patrono quoque qui ex asse heres institutus est si ab intestato possederit hereditatem, commodum partis debitae, quod habiturus foret, si ex testamento adisset hereditatem, saluum ei debet esse.
[THE SAME in the seventeenth book on the Provincial Edict.] Furthermore, for a patron also, who has been appointed heir to the whole estate, if he should possess the inheritance by intestate succession, the benefit of the share due to him, which he would have had if he had entered upon the inheritance under the will, must be secured to him.

Notes

  1. §29.4.19.prpatrono ... saluum ei debet esse — The dative 'patrono' at the beginning of the sentence is resumptively picked up by the dative pronoun 'ei' in the phrase 'saluum ei debet esse' near the end, after several intervening relative and conditional clauses. This functions to emphasize the subject of the provision after a long insertion.
  2. §29.4.19.prex asse — Based on the Roman unit 'as' (representing 12/12 or the whole), 'ex asse heres' means an heir to the entire estate, i.e., a sole heir.
  3. §29.4.19.prhabiturus foret — A periphrastic construction consisting of the future participle 'habiturus' and 'foret' (an alternative form of 'esset', subjunctive imperfect). It expresses the apodosis of a past contrary-to-fact condition, corresponding to the protasis 'si ex testamento adisset' (subjunctive pluperfect).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.4.19.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.4.19.pr

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