El principio semel heres semper heres y la confusión de las obligaciones en el derecho romano

Abstract

Development of Roman classical law is a process where different institutions are linked and whose evolution cannot be un­derstood in isolation. An example of the above seems to be the stability and perma­nence of the condition of heir -identified with the Romanist principle semel heres sem­per heres- and the identification of the he­reditary confusion of debts as an expir­ing means of obligations having definitive effects. It is understood that both processes are encouraged by jurists whose adscription is Sabinian and are related to one another, without leaving out connections to other juridical institutions. The result of this evo­lution in the Roman law is coherent from all points of view, because the occasion when the quality of heir is passed on to an­other person different from the one that first had it is unlikely to occur, once the debt has expired as a consequence of the succes­sion between debtor and creditor.