Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §31.0.57.pr

Lapse of Legacy to an Augusta Due to Her Prior Death

Passage 4784 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that a legacy left to an Augusta lapses if she dies before the testator, citing the decisions of the emperors Hadrian and Antoninus as precedents.

[IUNIUS MAURICIANUS libro secundo ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §31.0.57.prSi Augustae legaueris et ea inter homines esse desierit, deficit quod ei relictum est, sicuti diuus Hadrianus in Plotinae et proxime imperator Antoninus in Faustinae Augustae persona constituit, cum ea ante inter homines esse desiit, quam testator decederet.

[JUNIUS MAURICIANUS in the second book on the Lex Iulia et Papia.] If you leave a legacy to an Augusta, and she ceases to be among mankind, what has been left to her lapses, just as the divine Hadrian decided in the case of Plotina, and most recently the emperor Antoninus in the case of the Augusta Faustina, when she ceased to be among mankind before the testator died.

Notes

31.0.57.prin Plotinae — The noun persona (meaning 'case' or 'person') which appears in the later phrase 'in Faustinae Augustae persona' is also understood as omitted after the genitive 'Plotinae' in the first part.
31.0.57.prante ... quam — The conjunction antequam is split (tmesis) into ante and quam, with the clause 'ea ... desiit' inserted between them, introducing the subjunctive 'decederet'.

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