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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.164.pr

Transmission of Penal Actions to Heirs After Joinder

Passage 9224 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus states that penal actions, once formally accepted by the parties, can be transmitted to the defendant's heirs.

[PAULUS libro quinquagensimo primo ad edictum. ] §50.17.164.prPoenalia iudicia semel accepta in heredes transmitti possunt.
[PAULUS, in the fifty-first book on the edict.] Penal actions, once they have been accepted, can be transmitted to the heirs.

Notes

  1. §50.17.164.prsemel accepta — The perfect passive participle accepta (neuter plural) modifies the subject Poenalia iudicia, functioning here with conditional force ("once they have been accepted"). In Roman law, iudicium accipere (to accept a trial) refers to reaching the stage of joinder of issue (litis contestatio), which allows a penal action (poenalis actio)—otherwise personal—to be transmitted to heirs.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.164.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.164.pr

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