Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.1.2.pr

Reasons for a Separate Edict on Military Wills

Passage 4361 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Gaius explains that the proconsul issues a separate edict concerning soldiers' wills because he is well aware that special and unique legal rules apply to them under imperial constitutions.

[GAIUS libro quinto decimo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §29.1.2.prDe militis testamento ideo separatim proconsul edicit, quod optime nouit ex constitutionibus principalibus propria atque singularia iura in testamenta eorum obseruari.

[GAIUS in his fifteenth book on the Provincial Edict.] The proconsul issues a separate edict concerning the will of a soldier for this reason: because he knows very well that, on the basis of imperial constitutions, special and peculiar rules of law are observed in regard to their wills.

Notes

29.1.2.prpropria atque singularia iura ... obseruari — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction serving as the object of the verb `nouit` (knows). `propria atque singularia iura` is the subject accusative, and `obseruari` (present passive infinitive) is the predicate verb.

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