Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.2.21.pr

Division Between Patrons When One Fails to Claim

Passage 5957 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section rules that if one of three patrons fails to petition for the possession of goods, the remaining two will receive equal shares of the estate.

[IDEM libro uicensimo sexto digestorum. ] §38.2.21.prEx tribus patronis uno cessante bonorum possessionem petere duo aequas partes habebunt.

[THE SAME, in the twenty-sixth book of Digests.] Of three patrons, if one fails to petition for the possession of goods, the two will have equal shares.

Notes

§38.2.21.pruno cessante ... petere — While `uno cessante` forms an ablative absolute, the infinitive `petere` functions as a complementary infinitive dependent on `cessante` (the present participle of `cessare`, meaning "to neglect or fail to do something"), expressing "if one fails to petition for the possession of goods."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §38.2.21.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:38.2.21.pr

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