[ULPIANUS libro uicesimo secundo ad Sabinum. ] §32.0.45.prHoc legatum 'uxoris causa parata' generale est et continet tam uestem quam argentum aurum ornamenta ceteraque, quae uxoris gratia parantur.
[ULPIANUS, from the twenty-second book on Sabinus.] This bequest of 'things prepared for the wife's sake' is general and includes clothing as well as silver, gold, ornaments, and other things which are prepared for the wife's benefit.
sed quae uideantur uxoris causa parari? Sabinus libris ad Uitellium ita scripsit: quod in usu frequentissime uersatur, ut in legatis uxoris adiciatur 'quod eius causa parata sint', hanc interpretationem optinuit, quod magis uxoris causa quam communis promiscuique usus causa paratum foret.
But what things are considered to be prepared for the wife's sake? Sabinus wrote as follows in his books to Vitellius: as it is very frequently in use that in bequests to a wife there is added 'what things have been prepared for her sake,' this interpretation has prevailed, that it would be what was prepared rather for the wife's sake than for common and indiscriminate use.
neque interesse uisum est, ante ductam uxorem id pater familias parauisset an postea an etiam ex his rebus quibus ipse uti soleret uxori aliquid adsignauisset, dum id mulieris usibus proprie adtributum esset.
And it did not seem to make any difference whether the father of the family had prepared it before leading his wife [in marriage] or afterwards, or had even assigned something to his wife from those things which he himself was accustomed to use, provided that it was specifically attributed to the woman's use.