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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §37.5.20.pr-37.5.20.1

Collation of Gifts Mortis Causa in Possession Against Will

Passage 5769 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the obligation to collate donations mortis causa when an emancipated son petitions for possession of goods contrary to the will, and the rule that no such objection is allowed if the father dies intestate.

[MARCIANUS libro quarto regularum. ] §37.5.20.prSi filius emancipatus contra tabulas bonorum possessionem petierit, tuendos quidem liberos et parentes constat.
[MARCIANUS, book four of rules.]\n\nIf an emancipated son has petitioned for the possession of goods contrary to the will, it is established that the children and parents must indeed be protected.
sed si uarie donatum fuerit exceptis personis a testatore mortis causa, pro rata conferent ad uirilem emancipato, sicut accidit in portionibus hereditariis et legatis. §37.5.20.1Intestato autem mortuo patre super donationibus mortis causa factis non poterit filius quaeri, quoniam comparatio nulla legatorum occurrit.
But if various donations mortis causa have been made by the testator to persons other than those excepted, they shall contribute proportionally to the emancipated son to make up his virile share, just as happens in the case of hereditary shares and legacies.\n\nHowever, if the father dies intestate, the son cannot complain about the donations made mortis causa, because no comparison with legacies occurs.

Notes

  1. §37.5.20.prtuendos — In the accusative-with-infinitive (AcI) construction serving as the subject of the impersonal verb `constat`, `esse` is omitted after the gerundive `tuendos`. `liberos et parentes` is its subject accusative.
  2. §37.5.20.prexceptis personis — `exceptis` is the perfect passive participle of `excipere` (to except). Here it refers to persons exempt from the duty of collation. In this context, it functions as an ablative absolute meaning 'with the exception of these persons.'
  3. §37.5.20.1quaeri — A common spelling variant of the present infinitive `queri` from the deponent verb `queri` (to complain, object). Thus `non poterit filius quaeri` means 'the son cannot complain' (active meaning). Alternatively, it could be the passive infinitive of `quaerere` (to be questioned), but the context favors the former.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §37.5.20.pr-37.5.20.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:37.5.20.pr-37.5.20.1

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