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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.1.7.pr

Validity of a Deaf or Mute Person's Will by Imperial Dispensation

Passage 4097 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Macer states that if a deaf or mute person obtains special permission from the emperor to make a testament, that testament is legally valid.

[AEMILIUS MACER libro primo ad legem uicensimam hereditatium. ] §28.1.7.prSi mutus aut surdus, ut liceret sibi testamentum facere, a principe impetrauerit, ualet testamentum.
[AEMILIUS MACER, in the first book on the law of the twentieth part of inheritances.] If a mute or deaf person, in order that it be permitted for him to make a testament, has obtained [this] from the emperor, the testament is valid.

Notes

  1. §28.1.7.primpetrauerit — Third-person singular future perfect indicative of the verb impetro (to obtain by request). In the conditional clause with si, it denotes a future completed action prior to the state of the main clause (ualet). It takes the prepositional phrase a principe (from the emperor) and introduces a substantive clause of purpose/result (ut... liceret), meaning 'to obtain [permission] from the emperor that...'.
  2. §28.1.7.prut liceret — Third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of the impersonal verb licet (it is permitted). Since impetrauerit functions as a perfect aspect (past time perspective), the secondary sequence (consecutio temporum) triggers the imperfect subjunctive liceret.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.1.7.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.1.7.pr

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