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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §34.9.11.pr

Fraudulent Tacit Trusts and the Falcidian Portion

Passage 5316 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains a senatusconsultum stating that an heir who accepts a tacit trust in fraud of the law cannot claim the Falcidian portion from the fraudulent part, but can retain a fourth from the lawful surplus if the institution exceeds the fraud.

[PAPINIANUS libro quinto decimo quaestionum. ] §34.9.11.prHeres, qui tacitam fidem contra leges accommodauit, in ea parte, quae fraudem adhibuit, Falcidia non utitur: et ita senatus censuit.
[PAPINIANUS, in the fifteenth book of Questions.] An heir who has lent a tacit support contrary to the laws does not use the Falcidian law in that part in which he employed fraud; and the senate so decreed.
sed si maior modus institutionis quam fraudis fuerit, quod ad Falcidiam attinet, de superfluo quarta retinebitur.
But if the measure of the institution is greater than that of the fraud, so far as concerns the Falcidian law, a fourth part will be retained from the surplus.

Notes

  1. §34.9.11.prquae fraudem adhibuit — The nominative relative pronoun `quae` is feminine singular, agreeing with its antecedent `ea parte` (feminine singular ablative). Contextually, it refers to "the part in which the heir employed fraud," but grammatically `quae` (the part) is the subject of `adhibuit` in a personified expression.
  2. §34.9.11.prFalcidia — The ablative form with the word `lex` omitted from `lex Falcidia` (the Falcidian law, which secures at least a fourth of the estate to the heir). It is in the ablative case because the verb `utitur` governs the ablative.
  3. §34.9.11.prde superfluo — The neuter singular ablative of the adjective `superfluus` used substantively, meaning "from the surplus" or "from the remainder." Here it refers to the lawful portion of the inheritance remaining after subtracting the fraudulent trust (`fraus`) from the total designated institution (`institutio`).

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