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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §5.2.27.pr-5.2.27.4

Special Cases and Remedies in Suits on Inofficious Wills

Passage 991 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section addresses various specific legal determinations regarding inofficious testaments, including the revival of actions upon breach of compromise, the surviving right of action for a disinherited son whose paternity was denied, the inapplicability of such claims to military wills, the granting of provisional maintenance to a ward during appeal, and relief against a mother's will made under the false belief of her son's death.

[IDEM libro sexto opinionum. ] §5.2.27.prSi instituta de inofficioso testamento accusatione de lite pacto transactum est nec fides ab herede transactioni praestatur, inofficiosi causam integram esse placuit.
[BY THE SAME AUTHOR in his Sixth Book of Opinions.] If, after an accusation of an inofficious testament has been instituted, a compromise has been made concerning the dispute by agreement, and good faith is not observed toward the compromise by the heir, it has been decided that the cause of the inofficious testament remains intact.
§5.2.27.1Ei, qui se filium eius esse adfirmat, qui testamento id denegauit, tamen eum exheredauit, de inofficioso testamento causa superest.
For him who asserts that he is the son of a person who denied this in his testament, but nevertheless disinherited him, there remains a cause of action regarding the inofficious testament.
§5.2.27.2De inofficioso testamento militis dicere nec miles potest.
No one, not even a soldier, can claim against the inofficious testament of a soldier.
§5.2.27.3De inofficioso testamento nepos contra patruum suum uel alium scriptum heredem pro portione egerat et optinuerat, sed scriptus heres appellauerat: placuit interim propter inopiam pupilli alimenta pro modo facultatium, quae per inofficiosi testamenti accusationem pro parte ei uindicabantur, decerni eaque aduersarium ei subministrare necesse habere usque ad finem litis.
A grandson had brought an action regarding an inofficious testament against his paternal uncle or another written heir for his share and had prevailed, but the written heir had appealed: it has been decided that in the meantime, because of the poverty of the ward, maintenance should be decreed in proportion to the resources which were claimed in part for him through the accusation of the inofficious testament, and that the opponent is obliged to supply this to him until the end of the lawsuit.
§5.2.27.4De testamento matris, quae existimans perisse filium alium heredem instituit, de inofficioso queri potest.
Regarding the testament of a mother who, thinking that her son had perished, instituted another as heir, a complaint of an inofficious testament can be made.

Notes

  1. §5.2.27.1Ei, qui se filium eius esse adfirmat, qui testamento id denegauit, tamen eum exheredauit, de inofficioso testamento causa superest. — The dative 'Ei' functions as a dative of interest with the verb 'superest' at the end of the sentence. Within the relative clause modifying 'eius', the phrase 'id denegauit' (denied it, i.e., denied that he was the son) and 'tamen eum exheredauit' (nevertheless disinherited him) present a legal self-contradiction by the testator (treating the claimant as a non-son yet formally disinheriting him), which justifies preserving the claimant's cause of action.
  2. §5.2.27.3placuit interim propter inopiam pupilli alimenta pro modo facultatium, quae per inofficiosi testamenti accusationem pro parte ei uindicabantur, decerni eaque aduersarium ei subministrare necesse habere usque ad finem litis. — The impersonal verb 'placuit' governs two accusative-with-infinitive (A.C.I.) constructions. The first is 'alimenta... decerni' (that maintenance be decreed), and the second is 'eaque aduersarium... necesse habere' (and that the opponent is obliged [has the necessity] to supply it). In the latter clause, 'aduersarium' is the subject accusative of 'habere', and 'ea' (neuter plural accusative referring back to 'alimenta') is the direct object of 'subministrare'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §5.2.27.pr-5.2.27.4. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.2.27.pr-5.2.27.4

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