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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.10.3.pr

Right to Accuse Forgery after Unknowing Acceptance

Passage 8269 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section rules that a person who accepts an inheritance or legacy without knowing that the will is forged is not barred from subsequently challenging the validity of the will.

[ULPIANUS libro quarto disputationum. ] §48.10.3.prQui ignorans falsum esse testamentum uel hereditatem adiit uel legatum accepit uel quoquo modo adgnouit, falsum testamentum dicere non prohibetur.
[ULPIANUS, Disputations, Book IV] He who, being ignorant that a will is false, has entered upon an inheritance, or accepted a legacy, or acknowledged it in any other manner, is not prohibited from alleging that the will is false.

Notes

  1. §48.10.3.prignorans falsum esse testamentum — The accusative with infinitive construction (falsum esse testamentum) is used as the object of the present participle ignorans, where testamentum is the subject accusative and falsum is its predicate.
  2. §48.10.3.prfalsum testamentum dicere — A legal idiom meaning 'to allege that a will is false' or 'to contest a will as a forgery'. It functions as the complementary infinitive with non prohibetur, where falsum testamentum is the object of dicere.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.10.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.10.3.pr

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