Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §30.1.9.pr

Legacy of Property Held by the Enemy and Postliminium

Passage 4605 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Shows the opinion of Octavenus regarding the bequeathability of property in the hands of the enemy and its legal maintenance by the right of postliminium.

[IDEM libro tertio ad Sabinum. ] §30.1.9.prId quod apud hostes est legari posse Octauenus scripsit et postliminii iure consistere.

[THE SAME, Book 3 on Sabinus.] Octavenus wrote that what is in the hands of the enemy can be bequeathed and that it is maintained by the right of postliminium.

Notes

30.1.9.prconsistere — The accusative and infinitive clause id ... consistere depends on scripsit. Here consistere means "to remain valid" or "to be established," explaining that even if property is captured by the enemy, its legacy remains validly established through the right of return (postliminium).
30.1.9.prpostliminii iure — Refers to the "right of postliminium" (the right of return), which automatically restored rights when captured persons or property returned to Roman territory. The phrase is in the ablative case, expressing means or basis.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §30.1.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:30.1.9.pr

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