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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.59.pr

Succession to the Rights and Powers of the Deceased

Passage 9119 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpianus states that an heir inherits the exact same legal status, namely the powers and rights, that the deceased possessed.

[IDEM libro tertio disputationum. ] §50.17.59.prHeredem eiusdem potestatis iurisque esse, cuius fuit defunctus, constat.
[THE SAME, in the third book of his Disputations.] It is well established that an heir has the same power and right as the deceased had.

Notes

  1. §50.17.59.prHeredem eiusdem potestatis iurisque esse — An accusative-with-infinitive (AcI) construction with the subject accusative heredem and the infinitive esse. The genitive phrase eiusdem potestatis iurisque functions as a genitive of quality/possession used predicatively with esse, meaning "that an heir possesses the same power and right."
  2. §50.17.59.prconstat — An impersonal verb meaning "it is established" or "it is well known," which takes the entire AcI clause (Heredem... esse) as its subject.

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