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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.2.30.pr

Erasure of Inheritance Tablets and Remedies

Passage 7891 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Specifies the condition for the application of the legal remedies mentioned in the previous section, namely when the tablets of inheritance have been erased.

[IDEM libro nono ad Sabinum. ] §47.2.30.prsi hereditariae tabulae deletae sint.
[THE SAME in the ninth book on Sabinus.] if the tablets of inheritance have been erased.

Notes

  1. §47.2.30.prhereditariae tabulae deletae sint — This subordinate clause sets forth the condition under which the remedies mentioned in the preceding section (D. 47.2.29.pr) apply. *hereditariae tabulae* (tablets of inheritance) generally refers to a will, and *deletae sint* (third-person plural perfect subjunctive passive of *delere*, 'to erase' or 'to destroy') describes a state where the writing on the tablets has been scraped off or the tablets themselves have been ruined.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.2.30.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.2.30.pr

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