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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §31.0.36.pr

Definition of a Legacy by Modestinus

Passage 4763 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A brief legal definition of a legacy (legatum) as a donation left by a will, extracted from Modestinus.

[IDEM libro tertio pandectarum. ] §31.0.36.prLegatum est donatio testamento relicta.
[The same, in the third book of the Pandects.] A legacy is a donation left by a will.

Notes

  1. 31.0.36.prrelicta — Perfect passive participle of relinquere (to leave) in the feminine nominative singular. Although the subject legatum is neuter, the modifying participle agrees in gender with the predicate noun donatio (feminine nominative singular).
  2. 31.0.36.prtestamento — Ablative singular of the neuter noun testamentum (will/testament), functioning as an ablative of means or of circumstance, modifying the participle relicta ('left by/in a will').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §31.0.36.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:31.0.36.pr

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