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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.5.71.pr

Definition of Forbidden Captatory Institutions

Passage 4250 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Papinian defines that the captatory institutions of heirs disapproved of by the senate are not those prompted by mutual affection, but those where the condition depends on the secret will of another.

[PAPINIANUS libro sexto responsorum. ] §28.5.71.prCaptatorias institutiones non eas senatus improbauit, quae mutuis affectionibus iudicia prouocauerunt, sed quarum condicio confertur ad secretum alienae uoluntatis.
[PAPINIANUS, Responses, book 6.] The senate did not disapprove of those captatory institutions of heirs which prompted testamentary dispositions through mutual affection, but of those whose condition is made dependent on the secret of another's will.

Notes

  1. §28.5.71.prcaptatorias — A captatoria institutio (captatory institution) refers to the designation of an heir made on the condition that the nominee in turn designates the testator as heir. The senate rendered such speculative institutions invalid.
  2. §28.5.71.priudicia — A legal technical term referring to the "last will" or "testamentary dispositions" of the testator, rather than judicial judgments.

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