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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §37.5.4.pr

Renunciation by Heirs Facing Emancipated Child Claims

Passage 5753 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Julian explains that written heirs usually decline the inheritance when they know that the emancipated child has applied or will apply for the possession of goods contrary to the will.

[IULIANUS libro uicesimo tertio digestorum. ] §37.5.4.prcum propter hoc plerumque scripti heredes omittant hereditatem, cum scirent emancipatum aut petisse aut petiturum contra tabulas bonorum possessionem.
[JULIAN in the twenty-third book of the Digests] since on this account the written heirs usually decline the inheritance, when they know that the emancipated child has either applied for or will apply for the possession of goods contrary to the will.

Notes

  1. §37.5.4.prcum propter hoc plerumque scripti heredes omittant hereditatem — A cum-clause with the present subjunctive omittant, explaining the background or reason for the rule stated in the preceding text of Ulpian (37.5.3.7), where legacies are not owed because the son accepts possession contrary to the will.
  2. §37.5.4.prcum scirent — A cum-clause with the imperfect subjunctive scirent, expressing the circumstance ('when they know') or reason ('since they know'). The imperfect tense is used here in relation to the present main verb omittant to describe the pre-existing awareness or psychological state of the heirs.
  3. §37.5.4.premancipatum aut petisse aut petiturum — An accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction serving as the object of scirent. The subject accusative is emancipatum, and the perfect infinitive petisse and the future infinitive petiturum [esse] (with esse omitted) are coordinated by aut...aut.

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