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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §32.0.58.pr

Legacy to a Wife and Purple Garments Bought in a Province

Passage 4882 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian reports a imperial rescript stating that if a husband bequeaths to his wife items prepared for her use and subsequently purchases purple garments in a province but dies before bringing them home, those garments still belong to her.

[ULPIANUS libro quarto disputationum. ] §32.0.58.prCum uxori suae quis ea, quae eius causa parata sunt, legasset, dehinc uiuus purpuras comparasset in prouincia necdum tamen aduexisset, rescriptum est ad mulierem purpuras pertinere.
[ULPIAN, from the fourth book of Disputations.] When someone had bequeathed to his wife those things which had been prepared for her use, and thereafter while alive had purchased purple garments in a province but had not yet brought them home, it was stated in a rescript that the purple garments belonged to the woman.

Notes

  1. 32.0.58.pruiuus — Nominative singular adjective. It agrees with the implied subject (quis) and is used adverbially to mean "while alive" or "in his lifetime."
  2. 32.0.58.prpurpuras — Refers to highly valuable "purple garments" or "purple fabrics" used for women's clothing or adornments. The legal question is whether they are included in the legacy of "things prepared for the wife" once purchased for her, even if they had not yet been delivered home.
  3. 32.0.58.prrescriptum est — Impersonal passive. Indicates that an official written reply (rescriptum) was issued by the emperor in response to a legal inquiry.
  4. 32.0.58.prad mulierem purpuras pertinere — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction serving as the subject of rescriptum est. The phrase pertinere ad means "to belong to" or "to pertain to."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §32.0.58.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:32.0.58.pr

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