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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §31.0.75.pr-31.0.75.1

Fideicommissum by Soldier's Letter and Pre-Legacy

Passage 4802 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text decides on the validity of a trust left by a soldier in a letter, and the transmission of pre-legacies when a co-heir dies after the vesting day but before entering upon the inheritance.

[IDEM libro sexto responsorum. ] §31.0.75.prMiles ad sororem epistulam, quam post mortem suam aperiri mandauit, talem scripsit: 'scire te uolo donare me tibi aureos octingentos'. fideicommissum deberi sorori constitit nec aliud probandum in cuiuslibet suprema uoluntate: placet enim consistere fideicommissum et si defunctus cum eo loquatur, quem precario remuneratur.
A soldier wrote a letter to his sister, which he ordered to be opened after his death, as follows: 'I want you to know that I give you eight hundred gold pieces.' It was held that a trust was owed to the sister, and no other rule should be approved in anyone's last will; for it is accepted that a trust is valid even if the deceased speaks with the person whom he precariously rewards.
§31.0.75.1Pro parte heres institutus, cui praeceptiones erant relictae, post diem legatorum cedentem ante aditam hereditatem uita decessit.
An heir appointed for a share, to whom pre-legacies had been left, departed this life after the vesting day of the legacies but before the inheritance was entered upon.
partem hereditatis ad coheredes substitutos pertinere placuit, praeceptionum autem portiones, quae pro parte coheredum constiterunt, ad heredes eius transmitti.
It was held that the share of the inheritance belonged to the substitute co-heirs, but that the portions of the pre-legacies, which were established in proportion to the share of the co-heirs, were transmitted to his own heirs.

Notes

  1. 31.0.75.prfideicommissum deberi sorori constitit — The impersonal verb constitit (perfect of constat) takes the accusative with infinitive clause fideicommissum deberi sorori ('that the trust is owed to the sister') as its subject.
  2. 31.0.75.1ante aditam hereditatem — The preposition ante governs the noun hereditatem and its agreeing perfect passive participle aditam, expressing a gerundive meaning 'before entering upon the inheritance' (the so-called ab urbe condita construction).
  3. 31.0.75.1partem hereditatis ad coheredes substitutos pertinere placuit, praeceptionum autem portiones... transmitti — The impersonal verb placuit acts as the main verb of the sentence, governing two accusative with infinitive clauses: partem hereditatis ... pertinere and praeceptionum ... transmitti.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §31.0.75.pr-31.0.75.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:31.0.75.pr-31.0.75.1

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