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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §32.0.15.pr

Duty to Deliver Bequeathed Property Recovered from the Sea

Passage 4836 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that bequeathed properties of the testator said to be in the deep sea must be delivered if and when they are eventually recovered and appear.

[MAECIANUS libro secundo fideicommissorum. ] §32.0.15.prHae res testatoris legatae quae in profundo esse dicuntur, quandoque apparuerint, praestantur.
[MAECIANUS from the second book on Trusts.] Those things of the testator which have been bequeathed and are said to be in the deep sea, whensoever they appear, shall be provided.

Notes

  1. §32.0.15.prquandoque apparuerint — The conjunction `quandoque` ("whenever", "whensoever") is used with the future perfect indicative `apparuerint` to express an indefinite future condition. Although the main verb `praestantur` ("are provided") is in the present tense, the actual performance of the obligation is conditioned upon the completion of their appearance in the future.
  2. §32.0.15.prin profundo — The neuter ablative singular form `profundo` of the adjective `profundus` ("deep") is used substantively with the preposition `in` to mean "in the deep sea" or "at the bottom of the sea." It refers to a state where items have sunk (e.g., due to shipwreck) and are currently deemed unrecoverable.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §32.0.15.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:32.0.15.pr

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