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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §31.0.56.pr

Death of the Emperor Before Vesting and Devolution to Successor

Passage 4783 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

States that if an emperor dies before a legacy vests, the legacy is, by a constitution of the divine Antoninus, owed to his successor.

[IDEM libro quarto decimo ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §31.0.56.prQuod principi relictum est, qui ante, quam dies legati cedat, ab hominibus ereptus est, ex constitutione diui Antonini successori eius debetur.
[THE SAME in the fourteenth book on the Lex Iulia et Papia.] What has been left to an emperor who, before the day for the legacy to vest arrives, is snatched away from mankind, is, by a constitution of the divine Antoninus, owed to his successor.

Notes

  1. 31.0.56.prab hominibus ereptus est — A euphemistic expression for the death of an emperor. Formed by the passive perfect of eripere ("to snatch away", "to remove"), it literally means "was snatched away from among men" (i.e., "died" or "passed away").
  2. 31.0.56.prante, quam — The subordinate conjunction antequam ("before") is split (tmesis) into the adverb ante and the relative quam.
  3. 31.0.56.prQuod principi relictum est — A noun clause introduced by the relative pronoun quod, serving as the subject of the main verb debetur.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §31.0.56.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:31.0.56.pr

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