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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.1.30.pr

Requirement for Witnesses to Note Details in Own Hand

Passage 4120 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the requirement that individual witnesses to a will must note down in their own handwriting who signed and whose will it is.

[IDEM libro tertio sententiarum. ] §28.1.30.prSingulos testes, qui in testamento adhibentur, proprio chirographo adnotare conuenit, quis et cuius testamentum signauerit.
[THE SAME in the third book of Opinions.] It is fitting that the individual witnesses who are employed in a will should note down in their own handwriting who signed and whose will he signed.

Notes

  1. §28.1.30.prconuenit — The impersonal verb "conuenit" (it is fitting/proper) takes the accusative and infinitive clause ("Singulos testes... adnotare") as its subject, where "Singulos testes" is the subject accusative of the infinitive "adnotare".
  2. §28.1.30.prquis et cuius testamentum signauerit — This is an indirect question clause serving as the object of the infinitive "adnotare". The verb "signauerit" is in the subjunctive perfect (3rd person singular) due to its position in an indirect question. "quis" (who) is the subject of this verb, and "cuius" (whose) is a possessive genitive modifying "testamentum".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.1.30.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.1.30.pr

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