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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §5.2.7.pr

Preparation of an Action and Its Transmission to Heirs

Passage 970 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text discusses the requirements for 'preparing a lawsuit' so that the action can be transmitted to an heir, distinguishing between whether the party was under the power of the deceased or not.

[PAULUS libro singulari de septemuiralibus iudiciis. ] §5.2.7.prQuemadmodum praeparasse litem quis uideatur, ut possit transmittere actionem, uideamus.
[PAULUS, On the Centennial Court, Single Book] Let us see how someone may be deemed to have prepared a lawsuit, so that he can transmit the action.
et ponamus in potestate fuisse eum, ut neque bonorum possessio ei necessaria et aditio hereditatis superuacua sit: si is comminatus tantum accusationem fuerit uel usque ad denuntiationem uel libelli dationem praecesserit, ad heredem suum accusationem transmittet: idque diuus Pius de libelli datione et denuntiatione rescripsit.
And let us assume that he was under power, so that neither the possession of goods was necessary for him, nor the entry upon the inheritance was needed: if he has only threatened an accusation, or has proceeded as far as denunciation or the presentation of a libel, he will transmit the accusation to his heir. And the deified Pius wrote a rescript to this effect concerning the presentation of a libel and denunciation.
quid ergo si in potestate non fuerit, an ad heredem actionem transmittat? et recte uidetur litem praeparasse, si ea fecerit quorum supra mentionem habuimus.
What then if he was not under power, does he transmit the action to his heir? And he is rightly deemed to have prepared the lawsuit, if he has done those things which we mentioned above.

Notes

  1. §5.2.7.prin potestate fuisse eum, ut neque bonorum possessio ei necessaria et aditio hereditatis superuacua sit — An accusative-with-infinitive construction (eum fuisse in potestate) functioning as the object of the verb ponamus, followed by a consecutive ut-clause. Inside the ut-clause, the correlative neque ... et ... structure is used, with the subjunctive verb sit omitted in the first part. It refers to the legal background where a self-successor (suus heres) under power (in potestate) inherits automatically by law, rendering both the possession of goods and the entry upon inheritance unnecessary.
  2. §5.2.7.prquorum supra mentionem habuimus — The antecedent of the relative pronoun quorum is the preceding neuter plural demonstrative pronoun ea (in si ea fecerit). The genitive case quorum is governed by the noun mentionem, based on the idiom mentionem habere alicuius rei ('to make mention of something').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §5.2.7.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.2.7.pr

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