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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §49.14.35.pr

Priority of Treasury Claims over Private Inheritance

Passage 8556 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage presents the legal question of whether, in a dispute over an inheritance between a private party and the treasury, the treasury's right should be prioritized and other suits suspended, or whether individual creditors' claims should be restrained, noting that this is settled by senatorial decrees.

[POMPONIUS libro undecimo epistularum. ] §49.14.35.prApud Iulianum scriptum est: si priuatus ad se pertinere hereditatem Lucii Titii dicat, altero eandem hereditatem fisco uindicante: quaeritur, utrum ius fisci ante excutiendum sit et sustinendae actiones ceterorum, an nihilo minus inhibendae petitiones creditorum singulorum, ne publicae causae praeiudicetur.
[POMPONIUS, Letters, Book XI.] It is written in the works of Julianus: if a private individual claims that the inheritance of Lucius Titius belongs to him, while another person claims the same inheritance for the treasury: the question arises, whether the right of the treasury should be examined first and the actions of the others suspended, or whether, nonetheless, the petitions of individual creditors should be restrained, so that no prejudice may be done to the public case.
idque senatus consultis expressum est.
And this has been expressly stated in decrees of the senate.

Notes

  1. §49.14.35.praltero eandem hereditatem fisco uindicante — An ablative absolute construction with the noun ablative `altero` and the present participle ablative `uindicante`. The dative `fisco` is a dative of advantage or reference, meaning 'for the benefit of the treasury' or 'on behalf of the treasury'.
  2. §49.14.35.prutrum ius fisci ante excutiendum sit et sustinendae actiones ceterorum, an nihilo minus inhibendae petitiones creditorum singulorum — A double indirect question introduced by `utrum ... an ...`, functioning as the subject of the impersonal passive main verb `quaeritur`. It employs gerundive constructions expressing necessity, where the subjunctive auxiliary `sint` (corresponding to the preceding `excutiendum sit`) is understood after both `sustinendae` and `inhibendae`.
  3. §49.14.35.prne publicae causae praeiudicetur — A negative purpose clause with the impersonal passive subjunctive present `praeiudicetur` of the intransitive verb `praeiudicare` (to prejudice, to decide beforehand to the disadvantage of someone), which governs the dative complement `publicae causae`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §49.14.35.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:49.14.35.pr

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