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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.15.3.pr

Effect of Father's Knowledge on Time for Possession

Passage 6066 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It stipulates that, regarding the calculation of time for the possession of goods, the father's knowledge does not prejudice the ignorant son.

[PAULUS libro quadragensimo quarto ad edictum. ] §38.15.3.prCirca tempora bonorum possessionis patris scientia ignoranti filio non nocet.
[PAULUS, from the forty-fourth book on the Edict.] Regarding the times of the possession of goods, the knowledge of the father does not prejudice the ignorant son.

Notes

  1. §38.15.3.prignoranti filio — A dative noun phrase with the present participle ignoranti (from ignorare, "to be ignorant"). The verb nocere ("to harm, prejudice") governs the dative case. It means that even if the father knew of the opening of the succession (patris scientia), this knowledge does not prejudice the son who did not know (ignoranti filio), and thus the available time (tempus utile) for the son's acceptance of the possession of goods does not begin to run.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §38.15.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:38.15.3.pr

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