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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §36.3.16.pr

Security in Disputes Between Namesake Legatees

Passage 5689 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text explains that if two persons with the same name contest a legacy, security must be given to both, but neither the heir nor the sureties are overburdened because the same sureties can be used, and they will ultimately be liable to only one person.

[Gaius libro uicensimo septimo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §36.3.16.prSi duo eiusdem nominis de legato contendant, utrisque satisdatur: nec onerari heredem, cum possit eosdem fideiussores ad utramque stipulationem adhibere, qui et ipsi non onerantur, cum futurum sit, ut uni tenerentur.
[GAIUS in the twenty-seventh book on the Provincial Edict.] If two persons of the same name contend for a legacy, security must be given to both; and the heir is not overburdened, since he can employ the same sureties for both stipulations, who themselves also are not overburdened, since it will happen that they would be liable to only one.

Notes

  1. 36.3.16.prnec onerari heredem — onerari is an infinitive with an accusative subject (heredem). It functions to state the consequence or the jurist's reasoning following satisdatur, implying "and it is understood that the heir is not overburdened."
  2. 36.3.16.prcum futurum sit, ut uni tenerentur — In the future-phrasing futurum sit, ut..., the imperfect subjunctive tenerentur is used in the ut-clause to express a hypothetical or conditional future situation, where the sureties would eventually be liable to only "one" of the claimants (i.e., whoever wins the dispute).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §36.3.16.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:36.3.16.pr

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