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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §30.1.15.pr-30.1.15.1

Mistake in the Legacy Amount and Bequests to Posthumous Daughters

Passage 4611 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This chunk discusses the validity of a legacy when the written amount or share differs from the testator's true intention, and the devolution of a legacy left to daughters including a posthumous one if she is not born.

[PAULUS libro tertio ad Sabinum. ] §30.1.15.prQui quartam partem bonorum legare uoluit, dimidiam scripsit.
[PAULUS, Book 3 on Sabinus.] A person who wished to bequeath a fourth part of his estate wrote down a half.
Proculus recte ait posse defendi quartam legatam, quia inesset dimidiae.
Proculus rightly says that it can be maintained that a fourth is bequeathed, because it is contained within the half.
idem erit et si quinquaginta uoluit legare et centum scripta sint: quinquaginta enim debuntur.
The same will hold even if he wished to bequeath fifty and a hundred was written: for fifty is owed.
sed et si plus legare uoluit et minus scripsit, ualebit legatum.
But also if he wished to bequeath more and wrote less, the legacy will be valid.
§30.1.15.1Si quis unam summam filiabus legauerit, ut etiam de postuma sentiret, si ea non est nata, superstiti solidum debebitur.
If someone should bequeath a single sum to his daughters, intending it also to apply to a posthumous daughter, if she is not born, the entire sum will be owed to the surviving daughter.

Notes

  1. 30.1.15.prinesset — Subjunctive imperfect. It is used in the subordinate causal clause (quia) within the indirect speech introduced by Proculus recte ait. The dative dimidiae ('to the half') is governed by the compound verb inesse.
  2. 30.1.15.1sentiret — Subjunctive imperfect. The subject is the testator (quis). The phrase sentire de ... means 'to think of, to have in mind, to consider'. The ut-clause expresses the intention of the testator.
  3. 30.1.15.1solidum — Neuter singular nominative of the adjective solidus used substantively, meaning 'the whole sum' or 'the entirety', serving as the subject of the passive verb debebitur.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §30.1.15.pr-30.1.15.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:30.1.15.pr-30.1.15.1

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