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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §30.1.19.pr-30.1.19.2

Validation of Invalid Legacies by Repetition and Equal Shares

Passage 4615 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Citing the opinion of Papinian, it explains the conditions under which an invalid legacy is validated by a specific 'repetition' of words, and further discusses the obligation of a substitute for an impuber and the rule of equal shares in a legacy to multiple persons.

[ULPIANUS libro quinto decimo ad Sabinum. ] §30.1.19.prLegata inutiliter data Papi-nianus putat libro quaestionum confirmari per repetitionem, id est per hanc scripturam postea forte in codicillis factam: 'hoc amplius ei heres meus dato', et diuersum esse in illa scriptura: 'quas pecunias legaui, quibus dies adpositus non est, annua bima trima die 'heres meus dare damnas esto': non enim hoc egisse testatorem, ut confirmaret quae inutilia sunt, sed ut diem utilibus prorogaret.
[ULPIANUS, Book 15 of Commentary on Sabinus.] Papinian, in his Book of Questions, thinks that legacies invalidly given are confirmed by repetition, that is, by this writing subsequently made perhaps in a codicil: 'my heir shall give him this much more', and that it is different in that writing: 'what money I have bequeathed, for which no day has been appointed, my heir shall be damnable to give on a term of one, two, or three years'; for the testator did not intend this, to confirm what is invalid, but to extend the term for what is valid.
§30.1.19.1Idem eodem loco et in substituto impuberis scribsit, ut, si fuerit ab impubere inutiliter legatum, substitutus hoc debeat, si 'hoc amplius' legatum ab eo sit relictum aliquid nec ille patri heres exstiterit et decesserit.
The same author, in the same place, also wrote regarding the substitute of an impuber: that, if a legacy has been invalidly given by the impuber, the substitute owes this, if any legacy of 'this much more' has been left by him, and that youth did not become heir to his father and died.
§30.1.19.2In legato pluribus relicto si partes adiectae non sunt, aeque seruantur.
In a legacy left to several persons, if the shares are not added, they are preserved equally.

Notes

  1. 30.1.19.prconfirmari — An accusative-with-infinitive construction (passive) with Legata inutiliter data as the subject accusative, depending on the verb putat.
  2. 30.1.19.prnon enim hoc egisse testatorem — An accusative-with-infinitive clause with testatorem as the subject accusative and egisse (perfect active infinitive of ago) as the predicate, which also depends on putat. hoc is a proleptic demonstrative referring to the subsequent ut ... sed ut ... clauses.
  3. 30.1.19.1si fuerit ab impubere inutiliter legatum — fuerit legatum is an impersonal passive (either future perfect or perfect subjunctive), meaning 'if a legacy has been bequeathed.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §30.1.19.pr-30.1.19.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:30.1.19.pr-30.1.19.2

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