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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.8.3.pr

Loss of Adoptive Cognation by Capitis Deminutio

Passage 6033 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Since cognation acquired by adoption is extinguished by capitis deminutio, if an adoptive brother undergoes capitis deminutio after the death of his brother, he cannot receive the possession of goods, as the praetor looks to both the time of death and the time of petition.

[IULIANUS libro uicensimo septimo digestorum. ] §38.8.3.prCapitis deminutione peremuntur cognationes, quae per adoptionem adquisitae sunt.
[JULIAN on the Digests, book twenty-seven.] Cognations that are acquired through adoption are extinguished by capitis deminutio.
igitur si post mortem uerbi gratia fratris adoptiui intra centensimum diem adoptiuus frater capite deminutus fuerit, bonorum possessionem accipere non poterit, quae proximitatis nomine fratris defertur: praetorem enim non solum mortis tempus, sed etiam id, quo bonorum possessio petitur, intueri palam est.
Therefore, if, for example, after the death of an adoptive brother, the adoptive brother undergoes capitis deminutio within one hundred days, he will not be able to receive the possession of goods which is granted on the ground of the proximity of a brother; for it is clear that the praetor looks not only to the time of death, but also to that at which the possession of goods is petitioned.

Notes

  1. §38.8.3.prcapite deminutus fuerit — The future perfect passive indicative in the conditional clause (si). It indicates that the change of status must have already occurred prior to the future action of the main clause (poterit).
  2. §38.8.3.prid, quo — The pronoun id refers back to tempus (time). The relative pronoun quo is in the ablative case, functioning with id to mean "that time, at which [the possession of goods is petitioned]."
  3. §38.8.3.prpraetorem ... intueri palam est — An accusative-with-infinitive construction (praetorem ... intueri) serving as the subject of the impersonal expression palam est ("it is clear that...").

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