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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §30.1.56.pr

Void Stipulation for Slave Defects and Delivery as Found

Passage 4652 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The passage explains that even if a legatee stipulates for a guarantee that a bequeathed slave is not a runaway, such a stipulation is void because the slave must be delivered under the will in whatever condition he is, and the legatee suffers no loss.

[IDEM libro quarto decimo ad Sabinum. ] §30.1.56.prSi legati serui nomine stipuletur legatarius fugitiuum eum non esse praestari, nihil ueniet in eam stipulationem, quia qualis sit, talis ex testamento praestari debet nec ullum in legato damnum facere intellegeretur.
[THE SAME, Book 14 on Sabinus.] If a legatee should stipulate, in respect of a bequeathed slave, that the slave is guaranteed not to be a runaway, nothing will come of that stipulation, because the slave must be delivered under the will in whatever condition he may be, and the legatee would not be understood to suffer any loss in the legacy.

Notes

  1. 30.1.56.prstipuletur legatarius fugitiuum eum non esse praestari — The verb stipuletur takes the accusative and infinitive clause fugitiuum eum non esse praestari as its object. Within this clause, praestari (to be guaranteed or rendered) is a passive infinitive, and its subject is the clause eum fugitiuum non esse (that he is not a runaway).
  2. 30.1.56.prnec ullum in legato damnum facere intellegeretur — The verb intellegeretur is used in a personal construction, with the legatarius (the legatee) as its implied subject. The phrase damnum facere is an idiomatic expression meaning 'to suffer or incur a loss'. The imperfect subjunctive denotes a hypothetical consequence.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §30.1.56.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:30.1.56.pr

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