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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §36.3.13.pr

Security and Possession against Possessor Claiming Intestacy

Passage 5686 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that security for legacies is also granted to a legatee who has an action against a person possessing the inheritance as an intestate heir while ignoring the heir's institution, and that if security is not provided, the legatee is granted possession to preserve the legacies.

[NERATIUS libro septimo membranarum. ] §36.3.13.prEi quoque, cui legatorum actio datur in eum, qui praetermissa institutione ab intestato possidet hereditatem, legatorum satisdatur et, nisi satisdabitur, in possessionem legatorum seruandorum causa mittitur: nam haec quoque praetor perinde salua esse uult atque ea quae iure ciuili debentur.
[NERATIUS in the seventh book of the Parchments.] To a person also who is granted an action for legacies against one who, ignoring the institution of an heir, possesses the inheritance as an heir on intestacy, security for the legacies is given; and, if security is not given, he is put into possession for the purpose of preserving the legacies. For the praetor wishes these also to be preserved in the same manner as those which are due by civil law.
idem Aristoni placet.
Aristo is of the same opinion.

Notes

  1. 36.3.13.prEi quoque — Dative case functioning as the indirect object of the impersonal passive verb satisdatur ('security is given'). It is placed at the beginning of the sentence and is modified by the relative clause cui...datur.
  2. 36.3.13.prpraetermissa institutione — Ablative absolute construction, consisting of the noun institutione (referring to heredis institutio, the institution of an heir) and the perfect passive participle praetermissa, meaning 'the institution of an heir having been ignored'.
  3. 36.3.13.prlegatorum seruandorum causa — Gerundive construction, where the gerundive seruandorum agrees in gender, number, and case with the noun legatorum (genitive neuter plural), which, together with the ablative noun causa, expresses purpose ('for the purpose of preserving the legacies').

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