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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §34.9.6.pr

Falcidian Portion and Treasury Rights in Embezzled Estates

Passage 5311 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage explains the calculation of the Falcidian portion and the distribution of embezzled assets to the legatees and the treasury when an heir has concealed part of the estate.

[MARCELLUS libro uicesimo secundo digestorum. ] §34.9.6.prRescriptum est a principe heredem rei quam amouisset quartam non retinere.
[MARCELLUS, in the twenty-second book of the Digests.] It was replied in a rescript by the emperor that an heir does not retain the fourth of a thing which he has removed.
et ideo si is qui quadringenta habebat uniuersa quadringenta legauit et heres centum subtraxisset, trecentorum quartam retinebit, septuaginta quinque scilicet, et ducenta uiginti quinque dabit legatariis: ex centum quae subripuit, legatariis quidem dabit septuaginta quinque, reliqua, id est uiginti quinque, ad fiscum uenient.
And therefore, if one who possessed four hundred bequeathed the whole four hundred, and the heir had subtracted one hundred, he will retain the fourth of three hundred, namely seventy-five, and will give two hundred and twenty-five to the legatees; out of the one hundred which he stole, he will indeed give seventy-five to the legatees, and the rest, that is twenty-five, will go to the treasury.

Notes

  1. §34.9.6.prquartam — Refers to the statutory fourth (Falcidian portion) secured for the heir under the Lex Falcidia (40 BC) to protect them against excessive legacies.
  2. §34.9.6.prrei quam amouisset — The verb of the relative clause "amouisset" (subjunctive pluperfect of amoveo) is in the subjunctive because it is a subordinate clause within the indirect statement (accusative with infinitive "heredem... non retinere") introduced by "rescriptum est".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §34.9.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:34.9.6.pr

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