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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.3.6.pr

Opening and Reading of the Will before Majority of Signers

Passage 4508 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A provision stating that if the majority of the signers are found, the testament can be unsealed and read aloud in their presence.

[ULPIANUS libro quinquagesimo ad edictum. ] §29.3.6.prSed si maior pars signatorum fuerit inuenta, poterit ipsis interuenientibus resignari testamentum et recitari.
[ULPIANUS, book 50 on the Edict] But if the greater part of the signers has been found, the testament can, with them intervening, be unsealed and read aloud.

Notes

  1. §29.3.6.pripsis interuenientibus — The demonstrative pronoun ipsis refers to the 'greater part of the signers' (maior pars signatorum) mentioned in the preceding conditional clause. This is an ablative absolute construction with the present participle interuenientibus, indicating the condition of their presence or intervention during the unsealing and reading of the testament.
  2. §29.3.6.prfuerit inuenta — Future perfect passive third-person singular of the verb inuenio, agreeing with the feminine subject maior pars. It expresses a completed prior condition in the conditional clause before the future state of the main verb poterit.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.3.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.3.6.pr

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