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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §32.0.12.pr

Validity of a Trust Ordering the Teaching of a Trade

Passage 4833 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Regarding a trust ordering the heir to teach a freed slave a trade to support himself, even if the trade is unspecified, the trust is not invalid; rather, the praetor or an arbiter must determine the most suitable trade considering the deceased's will and the beneficiary's attributes.

[UALENS libro primo fideicommissorum. ] §32.0.12.pr'Stichus liber esto: et ut eum heres artificium doceat, unde se tueri possit, peto'. Pegasus inutile fideicommissum esse ait, quia genus artificii adiectum non esset: sed praetor aut arbiter ex uoluntate defuncti et aetate et condicione et natura ingenioque eius, cui relictum erit, statuet, quod potissimum artificium heres docere eum sumptibus suis debeat.
[VALENS from the first book on Trusts.] "Let Stichus be free; and I request that the heir teach him a trade from which he can support himself." Pegasus says that the trust is invalid because the kind of trade was not added; but the praetor or an arbiter, based on the will of the deceased and the age, status, nature, and talent of him to whom it was left, will determine what trade in particular the heir ought to teach him at his own expense.

Notes

  1. §32.0.12.prunde se tueri possit — A relative clause introduced by the relative adverb `unde` ("from which," "whereby"), using the subjunctive `possit` to express the purpose or characteristic of the antecedent `artificium` ("a trade by which he can support himself").
  2. §32.0.12.prquod potissimum artificium — An interrogative adjective `quod` modifying the noun `artificium` and qualified by the superlative adjective `potissimum` ("most suitable" or "most preferred"), introducing an indirect question clause that serves as the object of the verb `statuet`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §32.0.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:32.0.12.pr

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