Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.2.39.pr

Succession Rights of an Adopted Patron's Daughter

Passage 5975 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section establishes that even if a patron's daughter has entered an adoptive family, she is still admitted to the inheritance of her father's freedmen.

[IDEM libro decimo ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §38.2.39.prPatroni filia si in adoptiua familia sit, ad bona libertorum paternorum admittitur.

[THE SAME, in the tenth book on the Lex Julia et Papia.] If the daughter of a patron is in an adoptive family, she is admitted to the goods of her father's freedmen.

Notes

§38.2.39.prlibertorum paternorum — The adjective paternorum ('of the father') refers to the patron who is her father. Thus, the phrase means 'the goods of the freedmen of her father (the patron)'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §38.2.39.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:38.2.39.pr

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