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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.7.6.pr

Effect of Impossible Condition to Erect a Monument

Passage 4326 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that if an heir is instituted under the impossible condition of building a monument within three days of the testator's death, the condition is treated as void (vanishes) due to its impossibility.

[ULPIANUS libro nono ad Sabinum. ] §28.7.6.prSi quis ita institutus sit, si monumentum post mortem testatoris in triduo proximo mortis eius fecisset: cum monumentum in triduo perfici non possit, dicendum erit condicionem euanescere quasi impossibilem.
[ULPIANUS, in the ninth book on Sabinus.] If anyone has been appointed heir in this manner: "if he should construct a monument within the three days immediately following the testator's death," since a monument cannot be completed in three days, it must be said that the condition vanishes as being impossible.

Notes

  1. §28.7.6.prfecisset — Subjunctive pluperfect. It represents an action prior to the main verb `institutus sit` (perfect tense) in a subordinate clause, reflecting the terms of the condition in indirect discourse.
  2. §28.7.6.prdicendum erit — Impersonal gerundive construction meaning "it will have to be said" or "it must be held," which governs the accusative and infinitive clause `condicionem euanescere` ("that the condition vanishes").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.7.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.7.6.pr

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