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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §31.0.39.pr

Buildings Erected on Bequeathed Land After the Will

Passage 4766 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states that if a building is erected on a bequeathed vacant plot after the will is made, both the land and the building must be delivered to the legatee.

[IDEM libro tertio ex Cassio. ] §31.0.39.prSi areae legatae post testamentum factum aedificium im positum est, utrumque debebitur et solum et superficium.
[THE SAME, in the third book of his commentary on Cassius.] If a building has been erected on a bequeathed plot of land after the making of the will, both will be owed, both the soil and the superstructure.

Notes

  1. 31.0.39.prpost testamentum factum — The preposition 'post' governs the accusative noun 'testamentum' together with its perfect passive participle 'factum', expressing the event as a whole ('after the making of the will'), a construction akin to 'ab urbe condita'.
  2. 31.0.39.prareae legatae — Dative of direction or reference depending on the verb 'impositum est' (perfect passive of 'imponere'), meaning 'on the bequeathed plot of land'.
  3. 31.0.39.prsuperficium — Though usually appearing as the fifth-declension noun 'superficies' in classical Latin, here it is used as a second-declension neuter noun 'superficium' in apposition with 'solum', referring to the superstructure or building erected on the ground.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §31.0.39.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:31.0.39.pr

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