Statutory Inheritance of a Female Patron's Son

Notes

1. §37.14.22.prSatis constat ... pertinere ... hereditatem — The impersonal phrase Satis constat (it is sufficiently established) governs an accusative and infinitive construction (ACI) with hereditatem as the subject accusative and pertinere as the infinitive.
2. §37.14.22.pretiamsi in potestate sit parentis filius patronae — In the concessive clause etiamsi... sit (even if... is), the subject is filius patronae (the son of the female patron), and parentis is a genitive modifying potestate (power). This refers to the situation where the son is under the paternal power (patria potestas) of his father or grandfather (pater familias), rather than being independent.
3. §37.14.22.prlegitimo iure — An ablative of means, cause, or standard, meaning "by statutory right" (i.e., under the Twelve Tables or civil law). Although a female patron, being a woman, does not hold paternal power, her son possesses a "statutory right" to the inheritance of the freedman based on his legal relation.