Corpus iurisprudentiae Romanae

Repertorium zu den Quellen des römischen Rechts

Digesta Iustiniani Augusti

Recognovit Mommsen (1870) et retractavit Krüger (1928)
Convertit in Anglica lingua Scott (1932)
Dig. XXXVIII13,
Quibus non competit bonorum possessio
Liber trigesimus octavus
XIII.

Quibus non competit bonorum possessio

(Concerning Those Who are Not Entitled to Prætorian Possession of an Estate.)

1Iu­lia­nus li­bro vi­cen­si­mo oc­ta­vo di­ges­to­rum. Ser­vo meo he­rede in­sti­tu­to do­lo fe­ci, ne tes­ta­men­tum mu­ta­re­tur, eum­que post­ea ma­nu­mi­si: quae­si­tum est, an ac­tio­nes ei de­ne­gan­dae es­sent. re­spon­di: hic ca­sus ver­bis edic­ti non con­ti­ne­tur. sed ae­quum est, si do­mi­nus do­lo fe­ce­rit, ne tes­ta­men­tum mu­ta­re­tur, quo ser­vus eius he­res scrip­tus erat, quam­vis ma­nu­mis­sus ad­ie­rit he­redi­ta­tem, ei de­ne­ga­ri, cum et­iam em­an­ci­pa­to fi­lio de­ne­ge­tur, si pa­ter do­lo fe­ce­rit, ne tes­ta­men­tum mu­ta­re­tur.

1Julianus, Digest, Book XXVIII. If my slave was appointed an heir, and I fraudulently prevented the testator from changing his will, and I afterwards manumitted the slave, the question arises whether actions to recover the estate should be refused to him. I answered, that this case is not included in the terms of the Edict; it is, however, but just, if the master was guilty of fraud, to prevent the will by which a slave was appointed heir from being changed; and he, even though he was manumitted, should accept the estate, the actions should be denied him, as an action is denied an emancipated son, where his father has committed fraud in order to prevent the testator from changing his will.