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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.2.8.pr

Falcidian Portion and Debt Charged to a Single Heir

Passage 5453 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text provides that when only one of the co-heirs is ordered to pay a certain debt left in the inheritance, the calculation of that debt for the purpose of the Lex Falcidia applies to that heir alone.

[IDEM libro quarto decimo quaestionum. ] §35.2.8.prIn legem Falcidiam aeris alieni rationem in hereditate relicti, quod unus ex heredibus soluere damnatus sit, ipse solus habebit.
[THE SAME, from his fourteenth book of Questions.] For the purpose of the Lex Falcidia, the calculation of a debt left in the inheritance, which one of the heirs has been ordered to pay, shall be held by him alone.

Notes

  1. §35.2.8.prrationem... habebit — The idiomatic phrase "rationem habere" (to take account, to hold the calculation) refers here to the deduction of the debt in the calculation under the Lex Falcidia. It is governed by the subject "ipse solus" (he alone).
  2. §35.2.8.prquod — A relative pronoun in the neuter accusative singular, whose antecedent is the genitive "aeris alieni" (from the neuter "aes alienum"). It functions as the object of the infinitive "soluere", while "unus ex heredibus" is the subject of "soluere damnatus sit" (ordered to pay).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.2.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.2.8.pr

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