[IDEM libro quarto decimo ad Sabinum. ] §40.3.2.prquare hi quoque legitimam hereditatem liberti uindicabunt.
[THE SAME, in the fourteenth book on Sabinus.] Therefore, they too shall claim the statutory inheritance of the freedman.
Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §40.3.2.pr
Right of Corporate Bodies to a Freedman's Estate
Summary
Ulpian explains that associations granted the power of manumission also have the right to claim the statutory inheritance of their freedman.
Notes
- §40.3.2.prhi — Nominative masculine plural of the demonstrative pronoun hic. Syntactically, it refers back to collegiis (dative plural of the neuter noun collegium, 'associations') mentioned in the preceding fragment (40.3.1.pr), referring either to the members of these associations or to the entities themselves conceptualized in the masculine plural, indicating their legal standing as patrons.
- §40.3.2.prlegitimam hereditatem — Meaning 'statutory inheritance' or 'intestate inheritance'. In Roman law, if a freedman (libertus) died without leaving any immediate heirs (sui heredes) and without a valid will, the inheritance rights reverted by law (lex) to the patron (patronus), which in this case is the association.
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