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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.141.pr-50.17.141.1

Limits on Exceptional Rules and Singular Inheritance

Passage 9201 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The prohibition against extending exceptional legal rules to their logical consequences, and the principle that two persons cannot each inherit the whole of one person's estate.

[PAULUS libro quinquagensimo quarto ad edictum. ] §50.17.141.prQuod contra rationem iuris receptum est, non est producendum ad consequentia.
[PAUL, in the fifty-fourth book on the edict.] That which has been accepted against the reason of the law must not be extended to its consequences.
§50.17.141.1Uni duo pro solido heredes esse non possunt.
Two persons cannot be heirs to one person for the whole.

Notes

  1. §50.17.141.prproducendum — A neuter singular nominative gerundive expressing obligation or necessity. Combined with the negative non, it means "must not be extended".
  2. §50.17.141.1pro solido — A legal expression meaning "for the whole". It indicates that multiple heirs cannot each be an exclusive heir to the "whole" of one deceased person's estate, meaning the inheritance must be divided.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.141.pr-50.17.141.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.141.pr-50.17.141.1

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