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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.2.27.pr

Disinheritance of a Grandson and Freedman's Estate

Passage 5963 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text explains that if a grandson is disinherited while his father is alive, this disinheritance will prejudice his rights to the estate of his paternal grandfather's freedmen.

[IDEM libro quarto quaestionum. ] §38.2.27.prUiuo filio si nepos exheredatur, nocebit ei exheredatio ad bona libertorum auitorum.
[THE SAME, in the fourth book of Questions.] If a grandson is disinherited while his father is alive, this disinheritance will prejudice him with respect to the property of his grandfather's freedmen.

Notes

  1. §38.2.27.prUiuo filio — An ablative absolute construction without a participle (due to the lack of a present participle for the verb esse), consisting of the noun filio and the adjective uiuo, meaning "while the son is alive".
  2. §38.2.27.prei — Pronominal dative serving as the indirect object of the verb nocebit (which governs the dative), referring back to the grandson (nepos) mentioned in the conditional clause.
  3. §38.2.27.prlibertorum auitorum — auitorum is the genitive plural masculine of the adjective auitus (belonging to a grandfather, ancestral), qualifying the noun libertorum (freedmen), meaning "the freedmen of the grandfather".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §38.2.27.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:38.2.27.pr

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