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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.1.16.pr

Invalidity of a Soldier's Bequest of Dotal Land

Passage 4375 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus states that a bequest of dotal land by a soldier is invalid under the Julian law.

[PAULUS libro quadragesimo tertio ad edictum. ] §29.1.16.prDotalem fundum si legauerit miles, non erit ratum legatum propter legem Iuliam.
[PAULUS, in his forty-third book on the Edict.] If a soldier should bequeath a dotal land, the bequest will not be valid on account of the Julian law.

Notes

  1. 29.1.16.prlegauerit — Future perfect indicative (or perfect subjunctive) in the conditional clause, indicating an action that will have been completed prior to the future state expressed by erit in the main clause.
  2. 29.1.16.prratum — Nominative neuter singular of the adjective ratus, -a, -um ("valid", "established"). It functions as a predicate nominative agreeing with the subject legatum (neuter singular), forming the phrase "will not be valid".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.1.16.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.1.16.pr

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