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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §37.14.11.pr

Patron Exclusion from Statutory Succession under the Twelve Tables

Passage 5861 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It specifies that a patron who has prosecuted his freedman on a capital charge is also excluded from the statutory inheritance under the Law of the Twelve Tables.

[ULPIANUS libro decimo ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §37.14.11.prIs autem nec ad legitimam hereditatem, quae ex lege duodecim tabularum defertur, admittitur.
[ULPIANUS, in the tenth book on the Lex Julia et Papia.] But that person is not even admitted to the statutory inheritance which is devolved under the Law of the Twelve Tables.

Notes

  1. §37.14.11.prIs — A demonstrative pronoun referring back to "the patron who prosecuted his freedman on a capital charge" mentioned in the preceding fragment (10.pr).
  2. §37.14.11.prnec ... admittitur — The negative adverb "nec" (not even) adds the further penalty of exclusion from the statutory inheritance (legitima hereditas) to the previously mentioned exclusion from the possession of property contrary to the will.

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