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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.7.3.pr

Fulfillment of Condition Fictive upon Refusal of Recipient

Passage 4323 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that if a person instituted as heir under a condition attempts to fulfill it, but the recipient refuses to accept, the condition is legally deemed to have been fulfilled.

[PAULUS libro primo ad Sabinum. ] §28.7.3.prSi ita heres institutus sim, si decem dedero, et accipere nolit cui dare iussus sum, pro impleta condicione habetur.
[PAULUS, in the first book on Sabinus.] If I have been instituted heir in this way, "if I give ten," and the person to whom I was ordered to give [it] is unwilling to accept [it], the condition is held as fulfilled.

Notes

  1. §28.7.3.prsi decem dedero — A conditional clause specifying the content of the adverb ita ('in this way'). dedero is in the future perfect indicative, representing the actual words of the testator: 'if I give ten'.
  2. §28.7.3.prcui dare iussus sum — The antecedent of the relative pronoun cui (dative) is omitted (either dative ei or nominative is), and the entire relative clause acts as the subject of accipere nolit. iussus sum is the passive of the transitive verb iubeo ('to order'), taking the infinitive dare ('to give') to mean 'I was ordered to give'.
  3. §28.7.3.prpro impleta condicione habetur — The preposition pro ('as') governs condicione with the perfect participle impleta ('fulfilled'), meaning 'as a fulfilled condition'. habetur is the third-person singular passive ('is held' or 'is deemed'), expressing the legal fiction of fulfillment.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.7.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.7.3.pr

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