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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.4.4.pr

Refusal of Freedman's Inheritance by a Co-Assignee

Passage 5992 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section presents an additional condition continuing from the previous section, where one of the co-assignees, while alive, does not wish to take the freedman's inheritance.

[POMPONIUS libro quarto senatus consultorum. ] §38.4.4.pruel uiuus noluerit ad se hereditatem liberti pertinere,
[POMPONIUS in the fourth book on the senatusconsults.] or, while alive, has been unwilling for the inheritance of the freedman to belong to him,

Notes

  1. §38.4.4.pruel — This conjunction continues the conditional clause "Si quis..." (If anyone...) from the previous section (§38.4.3.7), introducing a further alternative condition.
  2. §38.4.4.pruiuus — A predicative adjective agreeing with the subject of the verb `noluerit` (one of the two assignees), meaning "while alive."
  3. §38.4.4.prad se hereditatem liberti pertinere — An accusative with infinitive (ACI) construction serving as the object of the verb `noluerit`. `hereditatem` (inheritance) is the subject accusative, and `pertinere` (to belong) is the infinitive. The reflexive pronoun `se` refers to the subject of `noluerit`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §38.4.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:38.4.4.pr

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