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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §31.0.26.pr

Legacy of a Slave to Another and the Plea of Fraud

Passage 4752 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

If a testator appoints the usufructuary of a slave as heir and bequeaths the slave to a third party, the heir cannot use the plea of fraud even if the legatee claims the slave without leaving the usufruct to the heir.

[IDEM libro sexto decimo digestorum. ] §31.0.26.prIs, cuius in seruo proprietas erat, fructuario herede instituto alicui eum seruum legauit.
[THE SAME, in the sixteenth book of the digests.] A person who had ownership in a slave, having appointed the usufructuary as heir, bequeathed that slave to someone.
non potest heres doli mali exceptione uti, si legatarius uindicare seruum uellet non relicto heredi usu fructu.
The heir cannot make use of the plea of fraud (exceptio doli mali), if the legatee should wish to claim the slave without the usufruct being left to the heir.

Notes

  1. §31.0.26.prfructuario herede instituto — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun fructuario (the usufructuary) and the participle instituto (appointed), with herede acting as a predicative apposition ('having appointed the usufructuary as heir').
  2. §31.0.26.prdoli mali exceptione uti — The verb uti (to use) governs the ablative case; hence doli mali exceptione (the plea of fraud) is placed in the ablative.
  3. §31.0.26.prnon relicto heredi usu fructu — An ablative absolute construction consisting of non relicto (not having been left) and usu fructu (usufruct). heredi is a dative of interest ('to/for the heir').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §31.0.26.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:31.0.26.pr

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