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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §36.1.84.pr

Inheritance Trust to an Heir Denying a Debt

Passage 5640 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The author begins to consider the legal status of a debt when a testator appoints an alleged debtor (who denies the debt) as heir, with a request to restore the inheritance to another.

[PAULUS imperialium sententiarum in cognitionibus prolatarum ex libris VI libro primo seu decretorum libro II.] §36.1.84.prSi quis eum, quem debere sibi dicit eo negante, heredem scripserit eumque rogauerit, ut hereditatem restituat alii, uideamus de iure debiti.
If anyone appoints a person as his heir, whom he claims owes him money while that person denies it, and requests him to restore the inheritance to another, let us consider the legal status of the debt.

Notes

  1. §36.1.84.preo negante — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the pronoun `eo` and the present participle `negante`, meaning 'he [the alleged debtor] denying [it]'. It expresses an attendant circumstance involving a subject different from that of the main clause or relative clause.
  2. §36.1.84.prdebere sibi — An accusative and infinitive construction. The relative pronoun `quem`, which functions as the object of `dicit` in form but is attracted from `eum`, acts as the subject accusative of the infinitive `debere`. The reflexive pronoun `sibi` refers back to the subject of `dicit` (the testator `quis`).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §36.1.84.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:36.1.84.pr

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