Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.4.15.pr

Costs of a Son's Honor and the Co-Heirs

Passage 8712 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text rules that if a father wished his son to be a decurion and left him sufficient property, the expenses of the honors imposed on the son after the father's death do not fall on the son's co-heirs.

[PAPINIANUS libro quinto responsorum. ] §50.4.15.prEtsi filium pater decurionem esse uoluit, tamen defuncto honores; qui filio decurioni congruentes post mortem patris obtigerunt, ad onus coheredis filii non pertinent, cum ei decurioni sufficientes facultates pater reliquerit.

[PAPINIANUS, In the Fifth Book of Responses.] Even if a father wished his son to be a decurion, nevertheless, after the father's death, the honors that fell to the son as a decurion, being suitable to him as a decurion, do not belong to the burden of the son's co-heir, since the father left sufficient means to him as a decurion.

Notes

50.4.15.prdefuncto — An ablative absolute with the omission of `patre` (supplied from the preceding `pater`), meaning "when the father had died" or "upon the father's death."
50.4.15.prcoheredis filii — The genitive singular `coheredis` modifies the genitive singular `filii`, meaning "the co-heir of the son." It clarifies that other co-heirs of the decurion son are not required to bear the financial burden of his honors.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.4.15.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.4.15.pr

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