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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.17.9.pr

Children under Power Inheriting Intestate Mother

Passage 6096 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Regarding the Senatus Consultum Orphitianum, it explains the Imperial speech providing that the inheritance of an intestate mother belongs to her children, even if they are under the power of another.

[IDEM libro singulari ad senatus consultum Orphitianum. ] §38.17.9.prSacratissimi principis nostri oratione cauetur, ut matris intestatae hereditas ad liberos, tametsi in aliena potestate erunt, pertineat.
[THE SAME in his single book on the Senatus Consultum Orphitianum.] By the speech of our most sacred Emperor, it is provided that the inheritance of an intestate mother shall belong to her children, even if they are under the power of another.

Notes

  1. 38.17.9.prcauetur, ut... pertineat — The clause introduced by ut (with the subjunctive pertineat) functions as the substantive subject of the impersonal passive cauetur (it is provided). This is a standard construction in legal language to express rules or requirements.
  2. 38.17.9.prtametsi in aliena potestate erunt — The concessive conjunction tametsi (even if) is here used with the future indicative erunt, projecting a future state of being under another's paternal power (patria potestas) as an objective fact.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §38.17.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:38.17.9.pr

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