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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §32.0.76.pr

Exclusion of Written Papers and Books from Paper Bequests

Passage 4900 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

States that when sheets of paper are bequeathed, written papers and completed books are not included, and that the same rule applies to writing tablets.

[IDEM libro secundo ad edictum. ] §32.0.76.prChartis legatis nemo dicet scriptas et libros iam factos legato cedere.
[THE SAME, from his second book on the Edict.] When sheets of paper are bequeathed, no one will say that those which have already been written upon or books already made are included in the legacy.
hoc idem et in tabulis est.
This same rule also applies to writing tablets.

Notes

  1. §32.0.76.prscriptas — An accusative feminine plural adjective, modifying the omitted noun `chartas`. Together with `libros iam factos`, it serves as the subject accusative of the infinitive `cedere` in the accusative-and-infinitive (AcI) construction.
  2. §32.0.76.prlegato cedere — The intransitive verb `cedere` is here used with the dative `legato` (bequest/legacy), meaning "to go to, to accrue to, or to be included in (the legacy)."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §32.0.76.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:32.0.76.pr

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