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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §49.14.41.pr

Purchaser of Vacant Estate Assuming Claims against Deceased

Passage 8562 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that a person who purchases vacant property from the treasury must undertake the lawsuits that could have been brought against the deceased.

[IDEM libro uicensimo primo responsorum. ] §49.14.41.prEum, qui bona uacantia a fisco comparauit, debere actionem, quae contra defunctum competebat, excipere.
[THE SAME, Opinions, Book XXI.] He who has purchased vacant property from the treasury must undergo the action which was competent against the deceased.

Notes

  1. 49.14.41.prEum ... debere ... excipere — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction with Eum as the subject and debere (and its complement excipere) as the predicate. The main verb of declaring or deciding is omitted to present the core of the jurist's response.
  2. 49.14.41.practionem ... excipere — Meaning 'to sustain/defend an action.' It refers to the obligation of the purchaser of vacant property from the treasury to step in as a defendant and respond to any lawsuits that could have been initiated against the deceased.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §49.14.41.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:49.14.41.pr

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