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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §36.1.50.pr

Denial of Claim by Beneficiary Who Stole Estate Property

Passage 5603 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A legal opinion that if a beneficiary of a certain portion of an inheritance steals some hereditary assets, his petition to claim those stolen assets should be denied.

[PAULUS libro quarto decimo responsorum. ] §36.1.50.prPaulus respondit: si certa portio hereditatis alicui relicta proponitur et is res hereditarias quasdam furatus sit, in his rebus, quas subtraxit, denegari ei petitionem oportere recte respondetur.
[PAULUS, Responses, Book 14] Paulus answered: if it is proposed that a certain portion of an inheritance has been left to someone, and he has stolen certain hereditary things, it is correctly answered that his petition ought to be denied in respect of those things which he carried off.

Notes

  1. §36.1.50.prdenegari ei petitionem oportere recte respondetur — The infinitive clause starting with oportere serves as the subject of the passive verb respondetur, and within this, the accusative-with-infinitive clause denegari petitionem serves as the subject of the impersonal oportere.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §36.1.50.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:36.1.50.pr

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