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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §31.0.74.pr

Immediate Legacy and Subsequent Postponement of Term

Passage 4801 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text determines that even if a will orders an immediate payment, if the testator subsequently postpones the date for the legacies, that specific legacy is also subject to the postponed date and is not owed immediately.

[IDEM libro uicesimo septimo quaestionum. ] §31.0.74.pr'Titio centum aureos heres praesens dato': deinde protulit diem legatorum.
[BY THE SAME AUTHOR, in the twenty-seventh book of Questions.] "Let the heir give a hundred gold pieces to Titius immediately." Subsequently, the testator postponed the day for the legacies.
non est uerum, quod Alfenus rettulit, centum praesenti deberi, quia diem proprium habuerunt.
It is not true, as Alfenus reported, that the hundred are owed immediately, because they had their own specific day.

Notes

  1. §31.0.74.prpraesens — The adjective 'praesens' (present), used in the context of a testamentary command ('dato'), functions here adverbially to mean 'immediately' or 'without delay' (equivalent to 'praesenti die').
  2. §31.0.74.prnon est uerum, quod Alfenus rettulit, centum praesenti deberi — The clause beginning with 'quod' refers to 'what Alfenus reported', functioning as the subject of 'non est uerum'. 'centum praesenti deberi' (that the hundred are owed immediately) is an accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) clause expressing the content of Alfenus' report ('rettulit').
  3. §31.0.74.prhabuerunt — The verb is in the third person plural; its subject is either 'centum' (treated as a plural noun) or 'legata' (bequests) supplied from the preceding 'legatorum'. It indicates that the general day assigned to the legacies overrode the word 'immediately'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §31.0.74.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:31.0.74.pr

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