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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.5.4.pr-38.5.4.1

Shares and Priority between Multiple Patrons and Children

Passage 6006 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses the distribution of shares among multiple patrons in the revocation of assets alienated fraudulently by a freedman, and the order of application to the patrons' children.

[IDEM libro quadragensimo tertio ad edictum. ] §38.5.4.prQuodcumque dolo malo liberti alienatum est, Fauiana actione reuocatur.
[THE SAME [Ulpian], in the forty-third book on the Edict.] Whatever has been alienated with malicious intent by a freedman is revoked by the Fabiana action.
§38.5.4.1Etsi plures patroni sint, omnes unam partem habebunt: sed si uiriles non petent, portio ceteris adcrescet.
Even if there are several patrons, all of them will have one share; but if they do not petition for their individual shares, the portion will accrue to the others.
quod in patronis dixi, et in liberis patronorum est: sed non simul uenient, sed patronis deficientibus.
What I have said in the case of patrons also applies in the case of the children of patrons; but they will not come at the same time, but only when patrons are lacking.

Notes

  1. 38.5.4.1omnes unam partem habebunt — The "one share (unam partem)" indicates that the patrons do not each have an independent due portion (debita portio), but rather share a single due portion as a collective whole.
  2. 38.5.4.1uiriles — The adjective "uiriles" (accusative feminine plural) has the noun "portiones" ("shares") omitted, referring to the individual head shares (virile shares) that each person is entitled to claim.
  3. 38.5.4.1patronis deficientibus — An ablative absolute construction using the present participle, expressing the condition in which the patrons are deceased or otherwise fail/lacking to exercise their claims.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §38.5.4.pr-38.5.4.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:38.5.4.pr-38.5.4.1

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