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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.5.22.pr

Effects of Conditional Inheritance and Pure Manumission

Passage 4201 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Presents Julianus' view on how the fulfillment or failure of a condition affects the acquisition of freedom and inheritance when a slave is given conditional inheritance and unconditional freedom.

[IULIANUS libro trigesimo digestorum. ] §28.5.22.pret expleta quidem condicione liber heresque erit, quocumque loco libertas data fuerit: deficiente autem condicione perinde habetur, ac si libertas sine hereditate data fuerit.
[IULIANUS libro trigesimo digestorum.] And indeed, once the condition is fulfilled, he will be free and heir, in whatever place the freedom was given; but if the condition fails, it is held just as if freedom had been given without the inheritance.

Notes

  1. §28.5.22.prquocumque loco — Refers to the physical position or order of the clauses within the written will. It indicates that whether the grant of freedom is written before or after the institution of the heir, the legal effect remains the same once the condition is fulfilled.
  2. §28.5.22.prperinde habetur, ac si — A comparative construction expressing a contrary-to-fact assumption, meaning "it is held just as if." It establishes a legal fiction in case the condition fails, with the verb `data fuerit` in the subordinate clause functioning as a subjunctive.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.5.22.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.5.22.pr

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