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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.4.11.pr

Possession by Son and Father for Conditional Legacy

Passage 6945 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus argues that when a conditional legacy or fideicommissum is left to a son-in-power, both the son and his father should be admitted to possession because both hold an expectation of future benefit.

[PAULUS libro octauo ad Plautium. ] §42.4.11.prSi filio familias legatum uel fideicommissum sub condicione relictum sit, dicendum est tam ipsum quam patrem in possessionem mittendos esse, quia ambo spem commodi habent.
[PAULUS, book eight on Plautius.] If a legacy or a fideicommissum has been left to a son-in-power under a condition, it must be said that both he himself and his father are to be put into possession, because both have a hope of benefit.

Notes

  1. §42.4.11.prfilio familias — 'familias' is an archaic genitive singular form of 'familia'; 'filio familias' means 'a son-in-power' (a son subject to paternal power). 'filio' is the dative of indirect object governed by 'relictum sit'.
  2. §42.4.11.prtam ipsum quam patrem — This is the subject accusative of the infinitive 'mittendos esse' depending on 'dicendum est'. It uses the correlative construction 'tam A quam B' (both A and B), where the pronoun 'ipsum' refers back to 'filio'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.4.11.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.4.11.pr

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