[IDEM libro tertio decimo ad Sabinum. ] §38.16.2.prPost consanguineos admittuntur adgnati, si consanguinei non sunt, merito.
[THE SAME, from the thirteenth book on Sabinus.] After consanguinei, the adgnati are admitted, if there are no consanguinei, and deservedly so.
nam si sunt consanguinei, licet non adierint hereditatem, legitimis non defertur.
For if there are consanguinei, even though they have not accepted the inheritance, it is not deferred to the statutory heirs.
sed hoc sic erit accipiendum, si nec sperantur esse: ceterum si uel nasci consanguineus uel de captiuitate reuerti potest, adgnati impediuntur.
But this must be accepted in this way, if they are not even expected to exist; otherwise, if either a consanguineus can be born or return from captivity, the adgnati are barred.
§38.16.2.1Adgnati autem sunt cognati uirilis sexus ab eodem orti.
Now, adgnati are cognates of the male sex descended from the same ancestor.
nam post suos et consanguineos statim mihi proximus est consanguinei mei filius et ego ei: patris quoque frater, qui patruus appellatur: deincepsque ceteri, si qui sunt hinc orti, in infinitum.
For immediately after self-successors and consanguinei, the son of my consanguineus is closest to me, and I to him; also the father's brother, who is called a paternal uncle; and then the others, if there are any descended from here, ad infinitum.
§38.16.2.2Haec hereditas proximo adgnato, id est ei, quem nemo antecedit, defertur, et, si plures sint eiusdem gradus, omnibus, in capita scilicet.
This inheritance is deferred to the nearest adgnate, that is, to him whom no one precedes; and if there are several of the same degree, to all of them, namely, per capita.
ut puta duos fratres habui uel duos patruos, unus ex his unum filium, alius duos reliquit: hereditas mea in tres partes diuidetur.
As, for example, if I had two brothers or two paternal uncles, and one of them left one son, and the other left two; my inheritance will be divided into three parts.
§38.16.2.3Parui autem refert, adgnatus hic natiuitate an adoptione sit quaesitus: nam qui adoptatur isdem fit adgnatus, quibus pater ipsius fuit, et legitimam eorum hereditatem habebit uel ipsi eius.
Moreover, it matters little whether this adgnate was acquired by birth or by adoption; for he who is adopted becomes an adgnate to the same persons to whom his father was, and he will have their statutory inheritance, or they will have his.
§38.16.2.4Legitima hereditas tantum proximo defertur.
Statutory inheritance is deferred only to the nearest.
nec interest, unus solus sit an ex duobus prior pluribusue an duo pluresue ab eodem gradu uenientes, qui uel ceteros antecedant uel soli sint: quia is est proximus quem nemo antecedit, et is ultimus quem nemo sequitur, et interdum idem primus postremusque, qui solus occurrit.
And it does not matter whether there is only one, or the prior of two or more, or two or more coming from the same degree, who either precede the rest or are the only ones; because he is nearest whom no one precedes, and he is last whom no one follows, and sometimes the same person is first and last, who presents himself alone.
§38.16.2.5Interdum ulteriorem adgnatum admittimus: ut puta fecit quis testamentum, cum haberet patruum et patrui filium, deliberante herede scripto patruus decessit, mox heres institutus repudiauit hereditatem: patrui filius admittetur: ergo et bonorum possessionem petere potest.
Sometimes we admit a more remote adgnate; as, for example, if someone made a will when he had a paternal uncle and a paternal uncle's son, and while the appointed heir was deliberating, the uncle died, and soon after the appointed heir rejected the inheritance; the paternal uncle's son will be admitted; therefore, he can also petition for possession of goods.
§38.16.2.6Proximum non eum quaerimus, qui tunc fuit, cum moreretur pater familias, sed eum, qui tunc fuit, cum intestatum decessisse certum est.
We do not seek as the nearest person the one who was such when the head of family died, but the one who was such when it became certain that he died intestate.
secundum quae et si suus erat qui praecedebat uel consanguineus, si nemo eorum, cum repudiatur hereditas, uiuit, proximum eum accipimus, qui tunc, cum repudiatur hereditas, primus est.
According to which, even if he who preceded was a self-successor or a consanguineus, if none of them is alive when the inheritance is rejected, we accept as the nearest person the one who is first at the time when the inheritance is rejected.
§38.16.2.7Unde belle quaeri potest, an etiam post repudiationem adhuc demus successionem.
Hence, it can elegantly be asked whether we still grant succession even after rejection.
propone heredem scriptum rogatum restituere hereditatem repudiasse eam, cum nihilo minus compelli potuit adire hereditatem et restituere, ut diuus Pius rescripsit: finge eum superuixisse centum diebus uerbi gratia et interim proximum decessisse, mox et eum, qui erat rogatus restituere: dicendum posteriorem admitti cum onere fideicommissi.
Suppose that an appointed heir who was requested to restore the inheritance rejected it, although he could nonetheless be compelled to accept the inheritance and restore it, as the divine Pius rescribed; imagine, for instance, that he survived for a hundred days, and in the meantime the nearest heir died, and soon after also he who had been requested to restore; it must be said that the more remote heir is admitted with the burden of the fideicommissum.