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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §30.1.52.pr-30.1.52.1

Legacy of Slaves with Peculium and Claims from Substitutes

Passage 4648 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses the scope of slaves included in a legacy of all slaves with their peculium, and the interpretation of the paterfamilias's intent regarding a conditional legacy by an impuberate son and an unconditional claim from a substitute heir.

[PAULUS libro quarto ad Sabinum. ] §30.1.52.prSi cui serui omnes cum peculio legati sint, etiam hi serui debentur, qui nullum peculium habent.
[PAULUS, Book 4 on Sabinus.] If all slaves with their peculium are bequeathed to someone, even those slaves who have no peculium are owed.
§30.1.52.1Si a filio inpubere sub condicione legatum sit et filius heres exstitit, deinde mortuus est, potest dici patrem familias, qui a filio sub condicione legauit, a substituto pure repetit, statim uoluisse a substituto dari, si filius pendente condicione decessisset.
If a legacy is left by an impuberate son under a condition, and the son became heir and subsequently died, it can be said that the father of the family, who bequeathed [it] from his son under a condition [and] requested [it] again unconditionally from the substitute, wished it to be given immediately by the substitute if the son died while the condition was pending.

Notes

  1. 30.1.52.1potest dici patrem familias — The impersonal expression `potest dici` ("it can be said") governs an accusative with infinitive construction, where `patrem familias` is the subject accusative and `uoluisse` is the perfect infinitive.
  2. 30.1.52.1qui a filio sub condicione legauit, a substituto pure repetit — The relative pronoun `qui` refers back to `patrem familias`. The verbs `legauit` and `repetit` are understood to be coordinated (as if connected by an omitted `et`), meaning "the paterfamilias who bequeathed from his son under a condition [and] requested [it] again unconditionally from the substitute..."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §30.1.52.pr-30.1.52.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:30.1.52.pr-30.1.52.1

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