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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §49.14.14.pr

Confiscation under the Decree and Validity of Legacies

Passage 8535 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Gaius criticizes the view that when the treasury confiscates an inheritance under the Senatus Consultum Silanianum, it does not protect legacies or manumissions, arguing that they should remain valid just as in other cases of confiscation.

[GAIUS libro undecimo ad legem Iuliam et Papiarn. ] §49.14.14.prDicitur, ex asse hereditates ex Silaniano cum fiscus uindicasset, ut nec libertates nec legata tueatur.
[GAIUS, On the Julian and Papian Law, Book XI.] It is said that, when the imperial treasury has confiscated inheritances in their entirety based on the Silanianum, it protects neither manumissions nor legacies.
quod aperte nullam habet rationem, cum ex quibuslibet aliis causis fisco uindicatis hereditatibus et libertates et legata maneant.
This clearly has no rational basis, since when inheritances are confiscated to the treasury for any other reasons, both manumissions and legacies remain valid.

Notes

  1. §49.14.14.prex Silaniano — An abbreviation for ex senatus consulto Silaniano (under the Senatus Consultum Silanianum). It refers to the procedure where the inheritance is confiscated by the treasury as a sanction for unlawful acts, such as opening the will before the questioning of slaves regarding the master's murder is completed.
  2. §49.14.14.prut nec libertates nec legata tueatur — A clause with ut introduced by the impersonal main verb dicitur. The subject of the present subjunctive active third-person singular tueatur is the fiscus from the preceding clause. The construction dicitur ut here means 'it is said that (such a rule is asserted)'.
  3. §49.14.14.prfisco uindicatis hereditatibus — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun hereditatibus, the perfect passive participle uindicatis, and the dative fisco, meaning 'when inheritances are claimed by (confiscated to) the treasury.'

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