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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.2.43.pr

Posthumous Return of Slaves Increasing Falcidian Inheritance

Passage 5488 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that slaves returning from the enemy after the testator's death increase the value of the inheritance for the purposes of the Lex Falcidia.

[IDEM libro nono decimo ad edictum. ] §35.2.43.prSerui qui apud hostes sunt post mortem testatoris reuersi, quod ad Falcidiam pertinet, locupletiorem faciunt hereditatem.
[THE SAME in the nineteenth book on the Edict.]\n\nSlaves who are in the hands of the enemy, having returned after the death of the testator, make the inheritance richer, so far as concerns the Lex Falcidia.

Notes

  1. §35.2.43.prreuersi — Perfect participle of the semi-deponent (or deponent) verb revertor, carrying the active meaning 'having returned'. It modifies the subject Serui, temporally indicating that the return occurred after the death of the testator.
  2. §35.2.43.prquod ad Falcidiam pertinet — An idiomatic parenthetical clause using the neuter nominative singular relative pronoun quod, functioning to introduce a limitation or perspective: 'as far as concerns the Lex Falcidia' or 'as pertains to the Lex Falcidia'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.2.43.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.2.43.pr

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