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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.6.2.pr

Denial of Separation of Goods After the Sale of Inheritance

Passage 6991 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses that once an inheritance has been sold by the heir, a petition for separation will not be granted, provided that no suspicion of fraud arises.

[PAPINIANUS libro uicensimo quinto quaestionum. ] §42.6.2.prAb herede uendita hereditate separatio frustra desiderabitur, utique si nulla fraudis incurrat suspicio: nam quae bona fide medio tempore per heredem gesta sunt, rata conseruari solent.
[PAPINIANUS, Questions, Book 25] If the inheritance has been sold by the heir, a separation will be desired in vain, at any rate if no suspicion of fraud arises; for those things which have been done by the heir in good faith in the interim are customarily preserved as valid.

Notes

  1. §42.6.2.prAb herede uendita hereditate — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the perfect participle `uendita` and the noun `hereditate` (both feminine ablative singular), indicating a conditional circumstance ('if the inheritance has been sold'). `Ab herede` expresses the agent of the passive participle.
  2. §42.6.2.prrata — Nominative neuter plural of the adjective `ratus, -a, -um` (valid, established), functioning as a predicative complement to the subject of the relative clause `quae ... gesta sunt` (which is neuter plural), meaning 'preserved as valid'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.6.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.6.2.pr

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