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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §30.1.2.pr

Requirement of Testamentary Capacity for Trusts

Passage 4598 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that only those who have the right to make a will (testamentary capacity) can leave a trust-bequest.

[IDEM libro primo fideicommissorum. ] §30.1.2.prSciendum est eos demum fideicommissum posse relinquere, qui testandi ius habent.
[THE SAME, Book 1 on Trust-bequests.] It should be known that only those who have the right of making a will can leave a trust-bequest.

Notes

  1. §30.1.2.prSciendum est — An impersonal construction of the gerundive with est expressing necessity, which takes the accusative and infinitive clause (eos... posse relinquere) as its subject.
  2. §30.1.2.prtestandi — The genitive of the gerund of the deponent verb testor (to make a will), modifying the noun ius to mean "the right of making a will".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §30.1.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:30.1.2.pr

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