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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.12.2.pr

Exemption of a Deceased Soldier's Peculium from the Treasury

Passage 6061 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the familial conditions under which the camp property of a soldier dying intestate is exempt from being claimed by the treasury.

[PAPINIANUS libro sexto decimo responsorum. ] §38.12.2.prBona militis intestati defuncti castrensia fisco non uindicantur, cum heres legitimus ad finem quinti gradus exstitit aut proximus cognatus eiusdem gradus intra tempus possessionem acceperit.
[PAPINIANUS, from the sixteenth book of Responses.] The camp property of a soldier who died intestate is not claimed for the treasury, when a statutory heir within the fifth degree exists, or the nearest cognate of the same degree has taken possession within the prescribed time.

Notes

  1. §38.12.2.prBona ... castrensia — Refers to the property acquired by a soldier during active military service, also known as peculium castrense.
  2. §38.12.2.prad finem quinti gradus — 'Up to the end of the fifth degree,' meaning within the fifth degree of consanguinity in Roman law.
  3. §38.12.2.prpossessionem — Refers to the legal claim and acquisition of 'possession of goods' (bonorum possessio) rather than mere factual holding.
  4. §38.12.2.prcum ... exstitit ... acceperit — The conjunction cum is used with the indicative perfect exstitit and future perfect (or perfect subjunctive) acceperit, expressing a temporal-conditional relation ('when...').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §38.12.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:38.12.2.pr

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