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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.91.pr

Succession upon Double Rights and Rejection of the New Right

Passage 9151 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses how, when a succession arises from a double legal right, the rejection of the newly offered right does not extinguish the pre-existing old right.

[IDEM libro septimo decimo quaestionum. ] §50.17.91.prQuotiens duplici iure defertur alicui successio, repudiato nouo iure quod ante defertur, supererit uetus.
[The SAME, from his seventeenth book of Questions.] Whenever a succession is offered to someone by a double right, even if the new right which is offered first is rejected, the old one will remain.

Notes

  1. §50.17.91.prrepudiato nouo iure — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the perfect passive participle repudiato and nouo iure (ablative of nouum ius, 'new right'). It is interpreted here with concessive force ('even if the new right is rejected') or conditional force ('if the new right is rejected').
  2. §50.17.91.pruetus — The neuter singular nominative of the adjective uetus ('old'), used substantively as the subject of the main clause. In contrast to the preceding nouo iure, the omitted noun ius ('right/law') is understood.

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