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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §23.5.17.pr

Confirmation of Dotal Land Sale on Wife's Death

Passage 3508 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It stipulates that if a husband sells dotal land and subsequently the wife dies during the marriage with the dowry accruing to his profit, the land cannot be reclaimed from the buyer.

[MARCIANUS libro septimo digestorum. ] §23.5.17.prFundum dotalem maritus uendidit et tradidit: si in matrimonio mulier decesserit et dos lucro mariti cessit, fundus emptori auelli non potest.
[MARCIANUS, Digests, Book VII.]\n\nA husband sold and delivered a dotal estate: if the wife should die during the marriage and the dowry should accrue to the profit of the husband, the estate cannot be taken away from the buyer.

Notes

  1. 23.5.17.prlucro — Dative of purpose or effect with the intransitive verb cedere, meaning 'to accrue to the benefit of.' The genitive mariti modifies lucro ('accrued to the profit of the husband').
  2. 23.5.17.premptori — Dative of separation (dativus separationis) used with the verb auelli (passive infinitive of auellere, 'to tear away, take away'), meaning 'from the buyer.'

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