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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §31.0.61.pr-31.0.61.1

Allocation of Legacies upon Disclaimer by a Co-Heir

Passage 4788 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This chunk discusses the allocation of legacies and trusts when one of the co-heirs repudiates the inheritance, explaining the calculation of the legacy and the change in rule brought about by Emperor Severus's rescript.

[ULPIANUS libro octauo decimo ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §31.0.61.prSi Titio et Maeuio heredibus institutis qui quadringenta relinquebat a Titio ducenta legauerit et, quisquis heres esset, centum, neque Maeuius hereditatem adierit, trecenta Titius debebit. §31.0.61.1Iulianus quidem ait, si alter ex legitimis heredibus repudiasset portionem, cum essent ab eo fideicommissa relicta, coheredem eius non esse cogendum fideicommissa praestare: portionem enim ad coheredem sine onere pertinere.
[ULPIANUS in the eighteenth book on the Lex Iulia et Papia.] a person who was leaving four hundred appointed Titius and Maevius as heirs, and bequeathed two hundred from Titius, and one hundred from whoever should be the heir, and Maevius did not enter upon the inheritance, Titius will owe three hundred. indeed says that if one of the statutory heirs has repudiated his portion, although trusts had been left charged upon him, his co-heir is not to be compelled to perform the trusts; for the portion accrues to the co-heir without the burden.
sed post rescriptum Seueri, quo fideicommissa ab instituto relicta a substitutis debentur, et hic quasi substitutus cum suo onere consequetur adcrescentem portionem.
But after the rescript of Severus, by which trusts left charged upon an appointed heir are owed by the substitutes, here also the co-heir, as if a substitute, will obtain the accruing portion together with its burden.

Notes

  1. §31.0.61.prqui quadringenta relinquebat — A relative clause with an omitted antecedent, referring to the testator. quadringenta (four hundred) is a neuter plural accusative, with a monetary unit understood from the context.
  2. §31.0.61.prquisquis heres esset — A concessive clause using the subjunctive imperfect esset, meaning 'whoever should be the heir.' Since Maevius repudiated the inheritance and Titius acquired his share, this burden of one hundred also falls on Titius.
  3. §31.0.61.1quasi substitutus — Meaning 'as if a substitute.' By analogy with the rescript, the co-heir who acquires the repudiated portion through the right of accrual (ius accrescendi) is treated as a substitute (substitutus), thereby being bound by the trust attached to that portion.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §31.0.61.pr-31.0.61.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:31.0.61.pr-31.0.61.1

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