Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §32.0.46.pr

Effect of Conjunctions on the Scope of Wife's Bequests

Passage 4870 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that the addition of the phrase "prepared for her sake" either expands or restricts the scope of the bequest, depending on the presence or absence of the conjunction "-que".

[PAULUS libro secundo ad Uitellium. ] §32.0.46.prEa tamen adiectio legatum alias exiguis, alias plenius efficit.

[PAULUS, from the second book on Vitellius.] However, this addition makes the bequest in some cases more restricted, in other cases more ample.

augetur, cum sic scriptum est: 'quaeque eius causa parata sunt': id enim significat et si quid praeter ea quae dicta sunt eius causa paratum est: minuitur detracta coniunctione, quia ex omnibus supra comprehensis ea sola definiuntur, quae eius causa parata sunt.

It is enlarged when it is written thus: 'and what things have been prepared for her sake'; for this means that if there is anything prepared for her sake besides those things which have been mentioned, that also [is included]. It is diminished when the conjunction is removed, because out of all those things comprehended above, only those are defined which have been prepared for her sake.

Notes

§32.0.46.prexiguis — Since it is paired with the comparative 'plenius', it is understood here as a scribal error or variant for the comparative adverb 'exiguius' (more restrictively, more scantly).
§32.0.46.prdetracta coniunctione — An ablative absolute with the noun 'coniunctio' and the participle 'detracta', expressing the condition that the enclitic conjunction '-que' (and) in the preceding 'quaeque' is removed.

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