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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §36.1.22.pr

Remedies for Heir Restoring Estate without Retaining Quarter

Passage 5574 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius cites Aristo's opinion that an heir who restored the entire inheritance without retaining his quarter share still has legal remedies, such as recovering possession, pleading fraud, or notifying debtors not to pay.

[POMPONIUS libro uicensimo secundo ad Sabinum. ] §36.1.22.prHeres cum debuerat quartam retinere, totam hereditatem restituit nec cauit sibi stipulatione proposita.
[POMPONIUS in the twenty-second book on Sabinus.] An heir, when he ought to have retained the fourth part, restored the entire inheritance, and did not secure himself by the proposed stipulation.
similem eum esse Aristo ait illis, qui retentiones, quas solas habent, omittunt: sed posse cum rerum hereditariarum possessionem uel repetere uel nancisci et aduersus agentem doli mali exceptione uti posse eum et debitoribus denuntiare, ne solueretur.
Aristo says that he is similar to those who forfeit the rights of retention, which are the only ones they have; but that he can either recover or obtain possession of the hereditary property, and can use the plea of fraud against one who sues, and notify the debtors that payment should not be made.

Notes

  1. §36.1.22.prcum debuerat — The conjunction cum is followed by the indicative pluperfect debuerat, expressing an objective prior circumstance or concession ('although he ought to have').
  2. §36.1.22.prstipulatione proposita — An ablative of means (or ablative absolute) referring to the standard verbal agreement (stipulation) prescribed by the praetorian edict to secure mutual indemnities between the heir and the fideicommissary.
  3. §36.1.22.prposse eum — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction dependent on the main verb ait. The repetition of posse and eum in the latter part of the sentence is an emphatic or colloquial resumption to maintain clarity across the complex indirect discourse.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §36.1.22.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:36.1.22.pr

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