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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.8.6.pr

Accusation of Cognates and the Acquisition of Succession

Passage 6036 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that an accusation made by cognates against their own cognates does not act as an obstacle to their acquisition of succession.

[ULPIANUS libro quadragensimo quinto ad edictum. ] §38.8.6.prCognatis accusatio nihil obest ad successionem, si accusauerint cognatos suos.
[ULPIANUS on the edict, book forty-five.] To cognates, accusation is not at all an obstacle to succession, if they have accused their own cognates.

Notes

  1. §38.8.6.prCognatis — A dative placed at the beginning of the sentence, governed by the verb obest (from obsum, meaning "to be disadvantageous or a hindrance to"), functioning as a dative of disadvantage.
  2. §38.8.6.prnihil — The neuter accusative singular of the pronoun nihil ("nothing") is used here as an adverbial accusative modifying the verb obest, expressing a strong negation ("not at all").

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