Restitution of Bequeathed Money Used to Pay Debts

Notes

1. §31.0.72.prIdem seruandum erit — The subject Idem is a neuter nominative singular pronoun referring to the 'same rule' or 'same treatment'. seruandum erit is a passive periphrastic construction (gerundive + future of esse) expressing necessity or obligation in the future.
2. §31.0.72.prproprios creditores... dimiserit — dimiserit is a third-person singular perfect subjunctive or future perfect indicative. In the conditional clause introduced by et si (even if), it expresses an action temporally prior to the future action of the main clause. The phrase creditores dimittere is a legal idiom meaning to discharge or satisfy creditors by paying off debts.
3. §31.0.72.prquod in corpore patrimonii retinetur — The relative pronoun quod includes its own antecedent (equivalent to id quod) and introduces a relative clause that functions as the subject of the passive verb absumitur within the causal clause.