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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.5.18.pr

Contesting Undutiful Wills and Avenging the Deceased

Passage 4564 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section presents Paulus's response that the same person is not barred from both contesting an undutiful will and avenging the death of the deceased.

[IDEM libro nono regularum. ] §29.5.18.prEt inofficioso testamento queri idem et mortem uindicare defuncti non prohibetur, idque Paulus respondit.
[THE SAME, in his ninth book of Rules.] Also, the same person is not prohibited from both complaining against an undutiful will and avenging the death of the deceased, and this is what Paulus answered.

Notes

  1. §29.5.18.pridem — This is the masculine nominative singular of the demonstrative pronoun idem ('the same'), serving as the subject of the passive verb non prohibetur. Although it could grammatically be taken as the neuter accusative plural ('the same things'), in this legal context it is more appropriate to interpret it as 'the same person' who is not prohibited from exercising both actions.
  2. §29.5.18.prinofficioso testamento queri — An expression related to the complaint against an undutiful will (querela inofficiosi testamenti). The phrase inofficioso testamento is an ablative indicating the object or ground of the complaint (queri).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.5.18.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.5.18.pr

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