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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §36.1.12.pr

Conditional Trust and Limits on Extraordinary Relief for Wards

Passage 5563 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Presents the ruling of the Emperor Antoninus Pius that when a trust inheritance was conditionally left by a partial heir, there is no place for his constitution, nor should a ward be relieved through extraordinary procedure at the expense of another's rights.

[PAPINIANUS libro uicesimo quaestionum. ] §36.1.12.prSed cum ab herede pro parte instituto fideicommissa hereditas sub condicione relicta esset, imperator Titus Antoninus rescripsit non esse locum constitutioni suae neque pupillum extra ordinem iuuandum, praesertim si nouum beneficium cum alterius iniuria postularetur.
[PAPINIAN from the twentieth book of Questions.] But when a trust inheritance had been left under a condition by an heir appointed for a part, the Emperor Titus Antoninus issued a rescript that there was no room for his constitution, nor should the ward be relieved extra ordinem, especially if a new benefit was demanded to the injury of another.

Notes

  1. §36.1.12.prpro parte — Refers to an heir appointed for a specific share or fraction of the inheritance, rather than the whole (pro parte instituto).
  2. §36.1.12.prconstitutioni suae — Dative case, denoting the object for the impersonal expression `non esse locum` (there is no room). The reflexive pronoun `suae` refers to the main subject of the sentence, the Emperor (Titus Antoninus), specifically pointing to his own general constitution concerning the relief of heirs compelled to enter.
  3. §36.1.12.prextra ordinem — Literally 'outside the order'. It refers to the extraordinary procedure (extraordinaria cognitio), where the emperor or magistrates directly investigate and resolve cases outside the ordinary system of private civil actions (ordo iudiciorum privatorum).
  4. §36.1.12.priuuandum — Gerundive in the masculine accusative singular. In the accusative and infinitive (AcI) construction following the main verb `rescripsit`, it forms a passive periphrastic conjugation (expressing necessity or obligation) with `esse` omitted, where `pupillum` acts as the subject accusative.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §36.1.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:36.1.12.pr

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