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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §49.14.33.pr

Fiscal Privileges Applied to Heirs of Treasury Debtors

Passage 8554 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that anyone who accepts the inheritance of a debtor to the treasury becomes subject to the privileges of the treasury.

[ULPIANUS libro primo responsorum. ] §49.14.33.prEum, qui debitoris fisci adiit hereditatem, priuilegiis fisci coepisse esse subiectum.
[ULPIANUS, Opinions, Book I.] That he who accepted the inheritance of a debtor of the treasury has begun to be subject to the privileges of the treasury.

Notes

  1. §49.14.33.prEum ... coepisse — This is an accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction with the governing verb (such as "respondit") omitted. This is a common stylistic feature in jurisprudential summaries to present the core legal opinion concisely.
  2. §49.14.33.pradiit hereditatem — The verb adire is used here in its technical Roman law sense "to enter upon an inheritance" or "to accept an inheritance," referring to the heir's voluntary act of taking up the estate.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §49.14.33.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:49.14.33.pr

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