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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.6.9.pr

Change of Status and Emancipated Son's Estate Possession

Passage 6024 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text determines the effect of a change in status before or after an emancipated son applies for the possession of his father's estate on his ability to acquire and retain it.

[PAULUS libro undecimo responsorum. ] §38.6.9.prSi postea, quam filius emancipatus bonorum possessionem patris petit, statum suum mutauit, nihil obesse ei, quo minus id quod adquisiit retineat: quod si prius condicionem suam mutauit, bonorum possessionem eum petere non posse.
[PAULUS in the eleventh book of Opinions.] If, after the emancipated son applied for the possession of his father's estate, he changed his status, nothing stands in his way to retain what he acquired; but if he changed his condition beforehand, he cannot apply for the possession of the estate.

Notes

  1. §38.6.9.prnihil obesse — In the context of legal opinions (responsa), the governing verb of speaking or ruling is omitted, resulting in the accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction (obesse, posse).
  2. §38.6.9.prpostea, quam — The temporal conjunction posteaquam is split (tmesis) into the adverb postea and the relative particle quam.
  3. §38.6.9.prquo minus ... retineat — A subordinate clause introduced by the conjunction of hindrance quominus (quo minus) following a verb of hindering (nihil obesse), meaning "not to prevent from retaining."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §38.6.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:38.6.9.pr

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