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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.7.15.pr

Plea of Fraud Against Legacy Claims Exceeding Hereditary Shares

Passage 4591 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses that if the testator intended for legacies to be paid out of the entire estate, the instituted heirs can raise the plea of fraud against claims exceeding their hereditary shares.

[AFRICANUS libro secundo quaestionum. ] §29.7.15.prSed cum ea testatoris uoluntas fuerit, ut ex uniuersa hereditate legata erogarentur, dicendum scriptis heredibus profuturam doli exceptionem, si amplius quam hereditaria portio petatur.
[AFRICANUS, in his second book of Questions.] But since such was the intention of the testator, that the legacies should be paid out of the entire inheritance, it must be said that the plea of fraud will benefit the instituted heirs if more than their hereditary portion is claimed.

Notes

  1. §29.7.15.prea testatoris uoluntas fuerit, ut... erogarentur — The demonstrative pronoun `ea` points forward to the subsequent `ut` clause, which functions as a noun clause in apposition to explain the specific content of `testatoris uoluntas` (the intention of the testator).
  2. §29.7.15.prdicendum scriptis heredibus profuturam doli exceptionem — The impersonal gerundive construction `dicendum [esse]` (it must be said) functions as the predicate of the main clause, followed by an accusative-with-infinitive (A.C.I.) construction `profuturam [esse] doli exceptionem`. `profuturam` is a future participle agreeing with `doli exceptionem` (feminine singular accusative), with `esse` omitted. `scriptis heredibus` is a dative object governed by `prodesse`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.7.15.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.7.15.pr

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