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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.4.9.pr-42.4.9.1

Creditors Possession During Co-heir Deliberation

Passage 6943 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section prescribes the possibility of a single creditor applying for possession, and the temporary grant of possession to creditors for custody during the deliberation period when one co-heir is deliberating and the other refuses the inheritance.

[PAULUS libro quinquagensimo septimo ad edictum. ] §42.4.9.prunus ex creditoribus.
[PAULUS, book fifty-seven on the edict.] One of the creditors.
§42.4.9.1Si alter ex heredibus intra tempora sibi praestituta deliberet adire hereditatem, alter uero neget se aditurum, uidendum est, quid creditoribus agendum sit.
If one of several heirs deliberates within the time-limits prescribed for him whether to accept the inheritance, while the other denies that he will accept, it must be considered what the creditors ought to do.
et placet interim eos in possessionem mittendos custodiae causa, donec appareat, is qui deliberat utrum adgnoscat partem suam an non adgnoscat.
And it is accepted that, in the meantime, they should be put in possession for the purpose of custody, until it appears whether he who is deliberating accepts his share or does not accept it.

Notes

  1. §42.4.9.1creditoribus agendum sit — creditoribus is a dative of agent with the gerundive agendum (from ago), forming an indirect question clause meaning "what the creditors ought to do."
  2. §42.4.9.1eos in possessionem mittendos — This is an accusative with infinitive clause functioning as the subject of the impersonal verb placet, with esse omitted in mittendos [esse]. The accusative eos refers to the preceding creditoribus.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.4.9.pr-42.4.9.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.4.9.pr-42.4.9.1

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