Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §31.0.38.pr

Acquisitions by a Bequeathed Slave Before Acceptance

Passage 4765 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that what a bequeathed slave acquires before the inheritance is accepted accrues to the inheritance.

[IDEM libro secundo ex Cassio. ] §31.0.38.prQuod servus legatus ante aditam hereditatem adquisiit, hereditati adquirit.

[THE SAME, in the second book of his commentary on Cassius.] What a bequeathed slave acquired before the acceptance of the inheritance, he acquires for the inheritance.

Notes

31.0.38.prante aditam hereditatem — The preposition ante is followed by the noun hereditatem and the perfect passive participle aditam (from adire, "to enter upon, accept"), forming a dominant participle construction ("ab urbe condita" type), meaning "before the acceptance of the inheritance."
31.0.38.prhereditati adquirit — The subject of adquirit is the servus legatus from the preceding clause. It literally means "he [the slave] acquires for the inheritance" (dative hereditati), meaning legally that the ownership of what the slave acquired accrues to the estate.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §31.0.38.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:31.0.38.pr

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