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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.138.pr

Scope of Inheritance as Including Possession of Goods

Passage 8952 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus states that the legal scope of the term 'inheritance' also encompasses the 'possession of goods'.

[IDEM libro quarto ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §50.16.138.pr'Hereditatis' appellatione bonorum quoque possessio continetur.
[THE SAME, from the fourth book on the Lex Iulia et Papia.] the term 'inheritance', the possession of goods also is included.

Notes

  1. §50.16.138.prHereditatis — Genitive singular of the feminine noun hereditas ('inheritance'), functioning as an appositional (definitive) genitive modifying 'appellatione' (ablative singular of appellatio), meaning 'under the designation of "inheritance"'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.138.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.138.pr

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