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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §36.2.9.pr

Personal Right of Habitation and Death of the Legatee

Passage 5650 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section addresses a case where a right of habitation is bequeathed to a son in power or a slave who dies before the inheritance is accepted. Because this right is strictly personal, the legacy's day does not vest, and it is not acquired by the father or the master.

[IDEM libro uicensimo primo ad Sabinum. ] §36.2.9.prSi habitatio filio familias uel seruo legata sit, puto non adquiri domino uel patri legatum, si ante aditam hereditatem filius uel seruus decesserit: nam cum personae cohaereat, recte dicitur ante aditam hereditatem diem non cedere.
[THE SAME in the twenty-first book on Sabinus.] If a right of habitation is bequeathed to a son in power or to a slave, I think that the legacy is not acquired by the master or the father, if the son or the slave dies before the inheritance is accepted; for since it is attached to the person, it is correctly said that the day does not vest before the inheritance is accepted.

Notes

  1. §36.2.9.prnon adquiri domino uel patri legatum — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction dependent on the verb `puto`. `legatum` is the subject accusative of the passive infinitive `adquiri`, and `domino uel patri` is the dative of benefit (or reference) indicating the recipient of the acquisition.
  2. §36.2.9.prcum personae cohaereat — The conjunction `cum` expressing cause ("since/because") is construed with the present subjunctive `cohaereat` (whose subject is `habitatio`). `personae` is the dative governed by the intransitive verb `cohaereo` ("to cling to", "cohere with"), indicating that the right of habitation is personal.
  3. §36.2.9.prdiem non cedere — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction dependent on the impersonal passive `recte dicitur` ("it is correctly said"). `diem cedere` is a legal idiom meaning "the day vests" (i.e., the right becomes established), here negated by `non` to mean that the right does not vest.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §36.2.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:36.2.9.pr

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