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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §5.4.4.pr

Adjusting Shares Based on the Number of Children Born

Passage 1060 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpianus explains the rules for the increase or decrease of the existing heir's share depending on whether the number of children actually born is fewer or more than the assumed three.

[ULPIANUS libro quinto decimo ad edictum. ] §5.4.4.pret si pauciores fuerint nati, residuum ei pro rata adcrescere, si plures quam tres, decrescere de ea parte ex qua heres factus est.
[ULPIANUS libro quinto decimo ad edictum.] and that if fewer should be born, the residue accrues to him proportionally; if more than three, [his share] decreases from that part out of which he was made heir.

Notes

  1. §5.4.4.pradcrescere — The infinitives `adcrescere` and `decrescere` are used in an accusative and infinitive (AcI) construction where the main governing verb (such as *placuit* or *existimatur*) is omitted, continuing the statement of the legal rule from the preceding context.
  2. §5.4.4.prpauciores — The comparative `pauciores` ("fewer") refers to a number fewer than the three children (triplets) assumed in the preceding text (i.e., one or two children).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §5.4.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.4.4.pr

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