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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.5.30.pr

Forfeiture of Inheritance for Unworthiness and Misconduct

Passage 6245 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that the inheritance is taken away on the grounds of unworthiness from the person who hastened to secure it contrary to good morals.

[MARCIANUS libro singulari de delatoribus. ] §39.5.30.prnam ei ut indigno aufertur hereditas.
For the inheritance is taken away from him as from an unworthy person.

Notes

  1. 39.5.30.prei — Dative of separation (or dative of disadvantage) used with the verb of taking away (aufertur), indicating the person from whom the inheritance is taken.
  2. 39.5.30.prut indigno — Dative adjective in agreement with the pronoun ei, meaning 'as from an unworthy person'. It refers to the legal doctrine of unworthiness to inherit (indignitas) in Roman law.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.5.30.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.5.30.pr

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