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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §5.3.6.pr

Payment of Legacies under a Contested or Forged Will

Passage 1002 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section rules on the conditions for paying a legacy when a will is alleged to be forged, and prohibits payment to the accuser of forgery if an inquiry is underway.

[IDEM libro septuagensimo quinto ad edictum. ] §5.3.6.prSi testamentum falsum esse dicatur et ex eo legatum petatur, uel praestandum est oblata cautione uel quaerendum an debeatur, etsi testamentum falsum esse dicatur, ei tamen qui falsi accusat, si suscepta cognitio est, non est dandum.
[THE SAME in the seventy-fifth book on the Edict.] If a will is alleged to be forged and a legacy is claimed under it, either it must be paid upon security being offered, or it must be investigated whether it is due; nevertheless, even if the will is alleged to be forged, if an inquiry has been undertaken, it must not be paid to the person who accuses of forgery.

Notes

  1. 5.3.6.prpraestandum est ... quaerendum — A parallel structure of the gerundive (passive periphrastic) with 'est'. 'praestandum est' takes 'legatum' (the legacy) as its implied subject, while 'quaerendum' (with 'est' omitted) takes the following indirect question clause 'an debeatur' (whether it is due) as its subject.
  2. 5.3.6.prfalsi — The genitive neuter singular of the noun 'falsum' (forgery). It functions as the genitive of charge/crime dependent on the verb of accusing, 'accusat' ('to accuse of forgery').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §5.3.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.3.6.pr

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