Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.2.59.pr-35.2.59.1

Loss of Falcidian Benefit through Obstruction and Unqualified Heirs

Passage 5504 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage rules that anyone attempting to invalidate a fideicommissum loses the Falcidian benefit, and that an heir requested to hand over an inheritance to an unqualified recipient is barred from retaining the one-fourth portion, which instead goes to the fiscus.

[IDEM libro nono pandectarum. ] §35.2.59.prBeneficio legis Falcidiae indignus esse uidetur, qui id egerit, ut fideicommissum intercidat.

[THE SAME, in the ninth book of the Pandects.] He who has acted in such a way that a fideicommissum should fail is deemed unworthy of the benefit of the Lex Falcidia.

§35.2.59.1Praeterea qui non capienti rogatus est restituere hereditatem, senatus consulto Planciano non conceditur quartam retinere: sed ea quarta, quam non retinuit, ad fiscum pertinet ex rescripto diui Pii.

Furthermore, a person who has been requested to restore an inheritance to one who is incapable of taking is not permitted, under the Senatus Consultum Plancianum, to retain the fourth; but that fourth, which he did not retain, belongs to the fiscus in accordance with a rescript of the Divine Pius.

Notes

35.2.59.prid egerit — The idiom id agere, ut followed by the subjunctive means 'to make it one's aim to' or 'to act in such a way that'. Here, egerit is a perfect subjunctive (or future perfect indicative).
35.2.59.1qui non capienti rogatus est ... non conceditur — An anacoluthon or irregular construction. Grammatically, one would expect a dative ei, qui... ('to him who...') as the indirect object of the impersonal passive non conceditur ('it is not permitted'). Instead, the relative clause stands in the nominative qui, or the verb concedere is used in a rare personal passive construction.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.2.59.pr-35.2.59.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.2.59.pr-35.2.59.1

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