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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §5.4.8.pr

Defending Part of an Inheritance and Surrendering the Rest

Passage 1064 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses why the possessor of an inheritance should be allowed to defend only a part of the inheritance and surrender the rest.

[IDEM libro quadragensimo octauo digestorum. ] §5.4.8.prPermittendum erit possessori hereditatis partem quidem hereditatis defendere, parte uero cedere, nec enim prohibet aliquem totam hereditatem possidere et partem scire dimidiam ad se pertinere, de altera parte controuersiam non facere.
[THE SAME, in the forty-eighth book of his Digests.] It must be permitted to the possessor of an inheritance to defend indeed one part of the inheritance, but to surrender the other part; for nothing prevents someone from possessing the whole inheritance while knowing that a half share belongs to him, and not raising a dispute concerning the other part.

Notes

  1. §5.4.8.prparte uero cedere — The verb cedere takes the ablative (parte) to mean 'to withdraw from, surrender, or yield'. Here it refers to surrendering possession or claims to a portion of the inheritance.
  2. §5.4.8.prPermittendum erit possessori — A third-person singular impersonal gerundive construction with erit, meaning 'it must be permitted to the possessor (dative possessori)'. The true subjects are the two infinitive clauses defendere and cedere.
  3. §5.4.8.prnec enim prohibet aliquem ... non facere — The verb prohibere takes an accusative and infinitive (A.C.I.) construction with the subject accusative aliquem and the series of infinitives possidere, scire, and non facere. Furthermore, scire governs a subordinate A.C.I. clause partem ... pertinere as its object.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §5.4.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.4.8.pr

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