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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §36.4.10.pr

Legatees' Actions in the Absence of Hereditary Assets

Passage 5702 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

If there are no hereditary assets for the legatees to take possession of, they cannot take possession of the heir's personal property, but they may themselves pursue the actions denied to the heir through the praetor.

[PAULUS libro tertio sententiarum. ] §36.4.10.prSi nullae sint res hereditariae, in quas legatarii uel fideicommissarii mittantur, in rem quidem heredis mitti non possunt, sed per praetorem denegatas heredi actiones ipsi persequuntur.
[PAULUS, book 3 of Opinions] If there are no hereditary assets into which the legatees or fideicommissaries may be placed in possession, they indeed cannot be placed in possession of the heir's own property, but, through the praetor, they themselves pursue the actions that have been denied to the heir.

Notes

  1. §36.4.10.prin quas ... mittantur — The subjunctive mittantur in the relative clause expresses the characteristic or purpose of the antecedent nullae res hereditariae (i.e., no such assets exist as to allow them to be placed in possession).
  2. §36.4.10.prdenegatas heredi actiones — The dative heredi depends on the perfect participle denegatas (as a dative of disadvantage or separation), meaning "the actions that have been denied to the heir."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §36.4.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:36.4.10.pr

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