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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §37.11.3.pr

Right of Born Posthumous Children to Claim Estate Possession

Passage 5835 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Confirming that any posthumous child who was in the womb at the testator's death can petition for the possession of goods upon being born.

[PAULUS libro quadragensimo primo ad edictum. ] §37.11.3.prVerum est omnem postumum, qui moriente testatore in utero fuerit, si natus sit, bonorum possessionem petere posse.
[PAULUS in his forty-first book on the Edict.] It is true that every posthumous child who was in the womb at the death of the testator, if he is born, can petition for the possession of goods.

Notes

  1. §37.11.3.prmoriente testatore — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the present participle moriente and the noun testatore, indicating simultaneity ('at the death of the testator').
  2. §37.11.3.prpetere posse — An accusative-with-infinitive construction introduced by verum est ('it is true'), where the subject accusative is omnem postumum.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §37.11.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:37.11.3.pr

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