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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §49.14.49.pr-49.14.49.1

Reward for Informing on Tacit Trusts and Heir Penalties

Passage 8570 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section determines the calculation basis for the reward granted to an illegal beneficiary of a silent trust who self-reported, and details the penalty of forfeiture imposed on the accomplice heir.

[IDEM libro singulari de tacitis fideicommissis. ] §49.14.49.prCum tacitum fideicommissum is cui datum erat capere se nihil posse detulisset, in quaestionem uenit, dodrantis an totius assis partem dimidiam ex beneficio diui Traiani recipere debeat.
[THE SAME, from the Single Book on Silent Trusts.] When a person to whom a silent trust had been given reported that he was unable to take anything, the question arose whether, by the benefit of the Divine Trajan, he ought to receive a half of three-quarters or a half of the entire whole.
de qua re exstat rescriptum imperatoris Antonini in haec uerba: 'Imperator Antoninus Iulio Rufo.
On this matter, there exists a rescript of the Emperor Antoninus in the following words: "The Emperor Antoninus to Julius Rufus.
§49.14.49.1Qui tacitam fidem accommodauit, ut non capienti restitueret hereditatem, si deducta parte quarta restituit, nihil retinere debet.
He who lent his silent good faith to restore an inheritance to one incapable of taking, even if he restored it after deducting a fourth part, ought to retain nothing.
quadrans autem qui heredi imponitur ipsius eripiatur et ad fiscum transferatur'. unde dodrantis semissem solum capit qui se detulit.
But the fourth part which is allowed to the heir shall be taken away from him and transferred to the treasury." Hence, he who reported himself takes only a half of three-quarters.

Notes

  1. 49.14.49.prdodrantis — The terms dodrantis (of three-quarters) and totius assis (of the entire whole) are genitives modifying partem dimidiam (a half), connected by the disjunctive conjunction an in an indirect question. It addresses whether the calculation under Trajan's benefit should be based on the portion remaining after the heir's deduction (three-quarters) or on the whole estate.
  2. 49.14.49.1Qui tacitam fidem accommodauit — A relative clause acting as the subject of the main clause verb phrase nihil retinere debet (ought to retain nothing), with its antecedent (such as is) omitted. The verb accommodauit (lent/provided) refers to the action of the heir who agreed to the illegal silent arrangement to restore the inheritance to an unqualified recipient.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §49.14.49.pr-49.14.49.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:49.14.49.pr-49.14.49.1

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