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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.151.pr

Definition of an Inheritance Offered and Acquirable

Passage 8965 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This chunk defines the legal concept of an inheritance being 'offered' (delata), explaining that it refers to an inheritance which a person can acquire through acceptance.

[TERENTIUS CLEMENS libro quinto ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §50.16.151.pr'Delata' hereditas intellegitur, quam quis possit adeundo consequi.
[TERENTIUS CLEMENS, in the fifth book on the Lex Iulia et Papia.] An inheritance is understood to be 'offered' which a person can acquire by accepting it.

Notes

  1. §50.16.151.prdelata — The perfect passive participle in the feminine nominative singular from the verb deferre ('to offer' or 'to defer'), agreeing with hereditas. In a legal context, it refers to an inheritance being placed at the disposal of an heir so that they are in a position to accept it.
  2. §50.16.151.pradeundo — The ablative of the gerund of the intransitive verb adire ('to approach' or 'to enter'). In Roman law, the expression adire hereditatem ('to enter upon an inheritance') is a technical term meaning to formally accept the inheritance; hence it means 'by accepting/entering upon' here.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.151.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.151.pr

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