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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.7.5.pr

Validity of Prior Codicils and the Final Intent

Passage 4581 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This fragment discusses the validity of codicils made before a will, requiring confirmation by a subsequent instrument or retention of intent, while respecting the deceased's final decision.

[PAPINIANUS libro septimo responsorum. ] §29.7.5.prAnte tabulas testamenti codicilli facti non aliter ualent, quam si testamento quod postea factum est uel codicillis confirmentur aut uoluntas eorum quocumque indicio retineatur: sed non seruabuntur ea, de quibus aliter defunctus nouissime iudicauit.
[PAPINIANUS, in his seventh book of Responses.] Codicils made before the tablets of a will are not otherwise valid than if they are confirmed by the will which was subsequently made or by codicils, or if their intention is retained by any indication whatsoever; but those things concerning which the deceased most recently decided otherwise shall not be observed.

Notes

  1. §29.7.5.prnon aliter ... quam si — A construction expressing a restriction on conditions, meaning "not otherwise than if" or "only if".
  2. §29.7.5.prcodicillis — Ablative of means, standing parallel with "testamento" as the means of "confirmentur". In context, it is understood as "by [subsequently made] codicils".
  3. §29.7.5.preorum — Genitive plural pronoun referring back to the plural noun "codicilli", meaning "their (the codicils') intention".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.7.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.7.5.pr

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