[IAUOLENUS libro sexto ex posterioribus Labeonis. ] §24.1.64.prUir mulieri diuortio facto quaedam idcirco dederat, ut ad se reuerteretur: mulier reuersa erat, deinde diuortium fecerat.
[IAUOLENUS, in the sixth book of Labeo's Posthumous Works.] A husband had given certain things to his wife after a divorce had taken place, for the purpose that she should return to him; the woman returned, and then she divorced him.
LABEO: Trebatius inter Terentiam et Maecenatem respondit si uerum diuortium fuisset, ratam esse donationem, si simulatum, contra.
LABEO: Trebatius answered, in the case between Terentia and Maecenas, that if the divorce had been real, the donation was valid, but if it was simulated, the contrary.
sed uerum est, quod Proculus et Caecilius putant, tunc uerum esse diuortium et ualere donationem diuortii causa factam, si aliae nuptiae insecutae sunt aut tam longo tempore uidua fuisset, ut dubium non foret alterum esse matrimonium: alias nec donationem ullius esse momenti futuram.
But that which Proculus and Caecilius hold is correct, namely, that a divorce is real and a donation made on account of divorce is valid only then, if another marriage followed or she had been without a husband for so long a time that there would be no doubt that it was another marriage; otherwise, the donation would not be of any validity.