Corpus iurisprudentiae Romanae

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Digesta Iustiniani Augusti

Recognovit Mommsen (1870) et retractavit Krüger (1928)
Convertit in Anglica lingua Scott (1932)
Dig. XLIX13,
Si pendente appellatione mors intervenerit
Liber quadragesimus nonus
XIII.

Si pendente appellatione mors intervenerit

(If Death Should Occur While an Appeal is Pending.)

1Ma­cer li­bro se­cun­do de ap­pel­la­tio­ni­bus. Ap­pel­la­to­re de­func­to, si qui­dem si­ne he­rede, cu­ius­cum­que ge­ne­ris ap­pel­la­tio fuit, eva­nes­cit. quod si ap­pel­la­to­ri he­res ex­ti­te­rit, si qui­dem nul­lius al­te­rius in­ter­est cau­sas ap­pel­la­tio­nis red­di, co­gen­dus non est per­age­re ap­pel­la­tio­nem: si ve­ro fis­ci vel al­te­rius, con­tra quem ap­pel­la­tum est, in­ter­est, he­res cau­sas ap­pel­la­tio­nis red­de­re ne­ces­se ha­bet. nul­lius au­tem in­ter­est, vel­uti cum si­ne ad­emp­tio­ne bo­no­rum rele­ga­tus est. nam si ad­emp­tis bo­nis rele­ga­tus vel in in­su­lam de­por­ta­tus vel in me­tal­lum da­tus pro­vo­ca­tio­ne in­ter­po­si­ta de­ces­se­rit, im­pe­ra­tor nos­ter Ale­xan­der Plae­to­rio mi­li­ti ita re­scrip­sit: ‘Quam­vis pen­den­te ap­pel­la­tio­ne mor­te rei cri­men ex­tinc­tum sit, da­ta ta­men et­iam de par­te bo­no­rum eius sen­ten­tia pro­po­ni­tur, ad­ver­sus quam non ali­ter is, qui emo­lu­men­tum suc­ces­sio­nis ha­bet, op­ti­ne­re pot­est, quam si in red­den­dis cau­sis ap­pel­la­tio­nis in­iqui­ta­tem sen­ten­tiae de­te­xe­rit’. 1Tu­tor quo­que in neg­otio pu­pil­li ap­pel­la­tio­ne in­ter­po­si­ta si de­ces­se­rit, he­redem eius cau­sas ap­pel­la­tio­nis red­de­re ne­ces­se est, et­iam­si ra­tio­nes tu­te­lae he­res red­di­de­rit, quia suf­fi­cit mor­tis tem­po­re ad cau­sas ap­pel­la­tio­nis red­den­das ob­li­ga­tum fuis­se. sed di­vi Se­ve­rus et An­to­ni­nus re­scrip­se­runt non co­gen­dum tu­to­rem post ra­tio­nes red­di­tas cau­sas ap­pel­la­tio­num red­de­re.

1Macer, On Appeals, Book II. Where the appellant dies without leaving an heir, an appeal of this kind is extinguished. If, however, an heir of the appellant should appear, and no one else has any interest in stating the ground for the appeal, the heir cannot be forced to prosecute it. But when the Treasury, or any other party against whom the appeal was taken, is interested in the case, the heir will be required to state the grounds for the appeal. No one has any interest, where, for example, the party has been relegated without having been deprived of his property. In case he should be relegated after having been deprived of his property, or be deported to an island, or sentenced to the mines, or should die after the appeal was taken, our Emperor Alexander made the following statement in a Rescript addressed to Pletorius, a soldier, as being applicable: “Although, while the appeal is pending, the accusation of the defendant is annulled by death, still, as it is alleged that a part of his property has been confiscated under the judgment, be who is entitled to the benefit of the succession can only obtain it if he gives good reasons for the appeal, and establishes the injustice of the decision.” 1If a guardian, after having taken an appeal pertaining to the business of his ward, should die, his heir will be compelled to state the grounds for the appeal, even if he has already rendered his account of the guardianship, for the reason that it is sufficient that he would have been obliged to state the grounds for it at the time of his death. The Divine Severus and Antoninus, however, stated in a Rescript that a guardian, after having rendered his accounts, should not be compelled to set forth the grounds of the appeal.