Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.7.1.pr-42.7.1.2

Conditional Heirs and Debt Payment via Curators

Passage 6997 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This chunk outlines the procedures when an heir is instituted under a condition, including scenarios of compliance, refusal, or inability, and specifies that debts increasing due to interest or penalties should be paid through a appointed curator.

[PAULUS libro quinquagensimo septimo ad edictum. ] §42.7.1.prSi quis sub condicione heres institutus est, cogendus est condicioni parere, si potest, aut, si responderit se non aditurum, etiamsi condicio extiterit, uendenda erunt bona defuncti.

[PAULUS, On the Edict, Book 57] If anyone has been instituted heir under a condition, he must be compelled to comply with the condition, if he can; or, if he responds that he will not enter upon the inheritance, even if the condition should be fulfilled, the goods of the deceased must be sold.

§42.7.1.1Quod si nihil facere potest, curator bonis constituendus erit aut bona uendenda.

But if he can do nothing, a curator must be appointed for the goods, or the goods must be sold.

§42.7.1.2Sed si graue aes alienum sit, quod ex poena crescat, per curatorem soluendum aes alienum, sicuti cum uenter in possessione sit aut pupillus heres tutorem non habeat, decerni solet.

But if there is a heavy debt which increases because of a penalty, it is customary to decree that the debt must be paid through a curator, just as is customary to be decreed when an unborn child is in possession, or a pupil heir has no tutor.

Notes

42.7.1.prse non aditurum — An accusative with infinitive construction with the omission of esse after the future active participle aditurum. The reflexive pronoun se refers to the subject of the main clause (the conditional heir). The verb adire is a technical legal term meaning to enter upon an inheritance.
42.7.1.1Quod si — A combination of the connective relative pronoun Quod (neuter singular accusative) and the conjunction si. It functions as a transitional or adversative link, meaning "But if" or "If, however".
42.7.1.2per curatorem soluendum aes alienum ... decerni solet — The main verb is the impersonal passive decerni solet (it is customary to be decreed), which governs the accusative with infinitive clause aes alienum soluendum [esse] (that the debt must be paid) with the gerundive soluendum (omitting esse).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.7.1.pr-42.7.1.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.7.1.pr-42.7.1.2

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