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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.6.44.pr

Inability of Pupillary Will to Validate Principal Will

Passage 4316 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Citing the opinion of Maecianus, this section presents the legal principle that a prior principal testament cannot be retroactively validated, either in part or in whole, by a pupillary testament.

[IDEM libro decimo quaestionum. ] §28.6.44.prEx pupillari testamento superius principale neque ex parte neque in totum confirmari posse Maecianus scripsit.
[The same, from his tenth book of Questions.] Maecianus wrote that the prior principal testament cannot be confirmed, either in part or in whole, by a pupillary testament.

Notes

  1. 28.6.44.prsuperius principale — The noun "testamentum" (testament) is omitted. In Roman law, a distinction is made between the parent's own testament (principale testamentum) and the substitute testament made by the parent for their impuber child (pupillare testamentum). This phrase refers to the principle that if the principal testament is invalid, it cannot be validated (confirmari) by the subsequent pupillary testament.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.6.44.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.6.44.pr

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