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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.24.pr

Definition of Inheritance as Universal Succession

Passage 8838 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Gaius defines 'inheritance' as the comprehensive succession to the entirety of the legal rights that the deceased person possessed during their lifetime.

[GAIUS libro sexto ad edictum prouinciale. ] §50.16.24.prNihil est aliud 'hereditas' quam successio in uniuersum ius quod defunctus habuit.
[GAIUS, in the sixth book on the Provincial Edict.] 'Inheritance' is nothing other than the succession to the entirety of the rights which the deceased possessed.

Notes

  1. §50.16.24.prnihil est aliud ... quam — A correlative construction with an exclusive comparative sense, meaning 'nothing other than' or 'nothing else than', which emphatically defines the subject 'hereditas' (inheritance).
  2. §50.16.24.prsuccessio in uniuersum ius — The noun successio (succession) is construed with the preposition in and the accusative, denoting the legal status or entirety of rights to be succeeded. Uniuersum ius views all the rights belonging to the deceased as a single comprehensive whole rather than as discrete, individual assets.

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