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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §30.1.5.pr-30.1.5.2

Option of Slave Legacy and Scope of Bequest of Co-Owned Property

Passage 4601 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section outlines the rules regarding the restriction on selecting a bequeathed slave and the scope of a legacy when co-owned property or land is bequeathed.

[PAULUS libro primo ad Sabinum. ] §30.1.5.prSerui electione legata semel dumtaxat optare possumus.
[PAULUS, Book 1 on Sabinus.] When the choice of a slave has been bequeathed, we can make our selection only once.
§30.1.5.1Labeo ait, cum certa res aut persona legatur ita: 'qui meus erit cum moriar, heres dato' et communis sit, totum deberi.
Labeo says that when a specific thing or person is bequeathed in this way: 'whoever shall be mine when I die, let my heir give him', and it is co-owned, the whole is due.
Trebatium uero respondisse partem deberi Cassius scripsit, quod et uerius est.
However, Cassius wrote that Trebatius answered that only the share is due, which is indeed more correct.
§30.1.5.2Cum fundus communis legatus sit non adiecta portione, sed 'meum' nominauerit, portionem deberi constat.
When a co-owned land is bequeathed without specifying the share, but the testator has named it as 'mine', it is established that the share is due.

Notes

  1. ¦30.1.5.pr¦Serui electione legata — Ablative absolute construction, where the noun `electione` acts as the subject and the participle `legata` acts as the predicate. `serui` is an objective genitive modifying `electione`.
  2. ¦30.1.5.1¦qui meus erit cum moriar, heres dato — A formulaic testamentary phrase. `dato` is a third-person singular future active imperative ("let him give"). Its subject is `heres`, and the relative clause `qui meus erit cum moriar` functions as the direct object of `dato`.
  3. ¦30.1.5.2¦non adiecta portione — Ablative absolute construction with the negative `non`, indicating a circumstantial or conditional state: "without specifying the share" (literally, "the share not having been added").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §30.1.5.pr-30.1.5.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:30.1.5.pr-30.1.5.2

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