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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §23.3.45.pr-23.3.45.1

Time of Peculium Valuation in Dowry Promises by Sons

Passage 3419 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses the point in time at which the peculium is to be evaluated, both when a woman about to marry promises only the action on the peculium to her debtor (a son-in-power), and when she marries another and orders the debtor son-in-power to promise a dowry.

[TRYPHONINUS libro octauo disputationum. ] §23.3.45.prQuod si nuptura debitori filio familias actionem dumtaxat de peculio promisit, id, quod ex ea causa sibi deberetur nuptiarum tempore, inspicitur.
[TRYPHONINUS in the eighth book of Disputations.] But if a woman about to marry should promise to her debtor, who is a son-in-power, only the action on the peculium, that which would be owed to her under that cause at the time of the marriage is taken into account.
§23.3.45.1Si uero alii nuptura iussit filium familias debitorem de peculio dotem promittere, tempus inspicitur, quo dos promissa est, ut tantum in peculio esse aestimaretur.
If, however, a woman about to marry another person should order the son-in-power who is her debtor to promise a dowry out of his peculium, the time when the dowry was promised is taken into account, so that only that amount is appraised as being in the peculium.

Notes

  1. 23.3.45.prnuptura — The future active participle feminine nominative singular of the verb nubo (to marry), used substantively to mean "a woman about to marry."
  2. 23.3.45.1iussit filium familias debitorem ... promittere — The verb iubeo (to order) takes the accusative filium familias debitorem (the debtor son-in-power) and the infinitive promittere (to promise), representing an order to perform an action.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §23.3.45.pr-23.3.45.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:23.3.45.pr-23.3.45.1

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