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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §34.9.3.pr

Unworthiness of an Heir Causing Testator's Death

Passage 5308 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses the decree of the deified Pius ruling an heir unworthy if proved to have caused the death of the testatress through their own negligence and fault.

[IDEM libro quinto regularum. ] §34.9.3.prIndignum esse diuus Pius illum decreuit, ut et Marcellus libro duodecimo digestorum refert, qui manifestissime comprobatus est id egisse, ut per neglegentiam et culpam suam mulier, a qua heres institutus erat, moreretur.
[THE SAME AUTHOR, in the fifth book of Rules.] The deified Pius decreed that a person was unworthy, as Marcellus also reports in the twelfth book of the Digests, who was most clearly proved to have acted in such a way that the woman, by whom he had been instituted as heir, died through his own negligence and fault.

Notes

  1. §34.9.3.prillum... qui manifestissime comprobatus est id egisse — The accusative pronoun `illum`, which is the subject of the accusative-with-infinitival clause `illum indignum esse` (that he is unworthy), serves as the antecedent of the relative pronoun `qui` (nominative). `comprobatus est` governs the infinitive `egisse` in a personal passive construction (nominative with infinitive), meaning 'he was proved to have acted'.
  2. §34.9.3.prid egisse, ut — The phrase `id agere, ut` is an idiomatic expression meaning 'to aim at', 'to strive to', or 'to act in such a way that'. The neuter accusative pronoun `id` anticipates the content of the purpose/result `ut` clause (with the subjunctive `moreretur`).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §34.9.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:34.9.3.pr

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