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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §23.3.65.pr

Restitution of Property Acquired by Dotal Slave to Wife

Passage 3439 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It regulates the obligation to restore property to the wife upon the dissolution of marriage, in cases where a dotal slave acquired property through a legacy or inheritance which the testator did not wish to belong to the husband.

[POMPONIUS libro quinto ad Quintum Mucium. ] §23.3.65.prSi legato aut hereditate aliquid seruo dotali obuenit, quod testator noluit ad maritum pertinere, id soluto matrimonio reddendum est mulieri.
[POMPONIUS in the fifth book on Quintus Mucius.] If anything comes to a dotal slave by legacy or inheritance, which the testator did not wish to belong to the husband, it must be restored to the woman upon the dissolution of the marriage.

Notes

  1. §23.3.65.prseruo dotali — Dative case, indicating the recipient of the verb obuenit (to accrue, to fall to). It refers to a slave given by the wife to the husband as part of the dowry (dotal slave).
  2. §23.3.65.prsoluto matrimonio — Ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun matrimonium and the perfect passive participle solutus (from soluo), expressing time (when the marriage is dissolved) or condition.
  3. §23.3.65.prreddendum est — Passive periphrastic conjugation consisting of the gerundive reddendus and est, denoting obligation or necessity (must be restored). The subject is the demonstrative pronoun id (referring to aliquid) modified by the relative clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §23.3.65.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:23.3.65.pr

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