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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §30.1.101.pr-30.1.101.1

Claims after Rejecting a Legacy and Captive's Death

Passage 4697 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section rules on whether a master who rejected a legacy to his slave can still claim it upon discovering a codicil bequeathing it to himself, and declares a legacy to a captive void if they die in enemy hands.

[IDEM libro septuagesimo octauo digestorum. ] §30.1.101.prSi seruo meo Stichus legatus fuerit testamento idque legatum repudiauero, deinde prolatis codicillis apparuerit mihi quoque eundem Stichum legatum esse, nihilo minus eundem uindicare possum.
[THE SAME, from the seventy-eighth book of the Digests.] If Stichus was bequeathed to my slave by a will, and I rejected that legacy, and subsequently, upon the production of codicils, it appeared that the same Stichus had been bequeathed to me as well, I can nonetheless claim the same Stichus.
§30.1.101.1Si ei qui in hostium potestate est legatum fuerit et is apud hostes decesserit, nullius momenti legatum erit, quamuis postliminio confirmari potuit.
If a legacy was bequeathed to someone who is in the power of the enemy, and he died among the enemy, the legacy will be of no effect, even though it could have been validated by the right of postliminium.

Notes

  1. §30.1.101.prprolatis codicillis — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the perfect passive participle of proferre (to produce, bring forward) and the ablative plural of codicilli (codicils), expressing the subsequent circumstance of the codicils being produced.
  2. §30.1.101.1nullius momenti — A genitive of quality (or value) used predicatively with erit, indicating the legal status of being "of no force" or "void."
  3. §30.1.101.1quamuis postliminio confirmari potuit — The conjunction quamuis (although) is used here with the indicative (potuit) instead of the classical subjunctive to form a concessive clause, which is a common usage in juristic and post-classical Latin.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §30.1.101.pr-30.1.101.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:30.1.101.pr-30.1.101.1

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