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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.7.1.pr

Relevant Time for Determining Heirs in Intestate Estate Possession

Passage 6025 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Julianus argues that the reference point for determining the heir in the case of intestate possession of an estate is not the time of the testator's death, but the time when the possession is applied for.

[IULIANUS libro uicensimo septimo digestorum. ] §38.7.1.prHaec uerba edicti 'tum quem ei heredem esse oporteret, si intestatus mortuus esset παρατατικώς et cum quodam temporis spatio accipiuntur: non ad mortis testatoris tempus referuntur, sed ad id, quo bonorum possessio peteretur.
[JULIANUS in the twenty-seventh book of the Digests.] These words of the Edict, "then, who ought to be his heir, if he had died intestate," are understood continuously and with a certain duration of time; they are not referred to the time of the testator's death, but to that in which the possession of the estate is applied for.
et ideo legitimum heredem, si capite deminutus esset, ab hac bonorum possessione summoueri palam est.
Therefore, it is clear that a statutory heir, if he has suffered a loss of status, is excluded from this possession of the estate.

Notes

  1. §38.7.1.prπαρατατικώς — A Greek adverb meaning "imperfectly" or "duratively" in grammatical terms. Here it signifies that the words should be interpreted in a continuous sense, with a certain duration of time, rather than as a single moment.
  2. §38.7.1.prad id, quo — The neuter singular accusative demonstrative pronoun id refers back to tempus. quo is the ablative of the relative pronoun, expressing the time in which the action occurs.
  3. §38.7.1.prlegitimum heredem... summoueri palam est — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction serving as the subject of the impersonal phrase palam est ("it is clear"). It consists of the accusative subject legitimum heredem and the passive present infinitive summoueri.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §38.7.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:38.7.1.pr

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