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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.1.12.pr

Annual Legacies Between Estates and Death of Legatee

Passage 4939 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

In response to a query about whether a legacy (the annual provision of reeds and willow from one estate to another) is extinguished upon the death of the legatee, Paulus answers that it is not a servitude but an annual trust, which terminates with the death of the legatee.

[IDEM libro tertio decimo responsorum. ] §33.1.12.prGaius Seius praedia diuersis pagis Maeuiae et Seiae legauit et ita cauit: 'praestari autem uolo ex praediis Potitianis praediis Lutatianis annua harundinis milia trecena et salicis mundae annua librarum singula milia': quaero, an id legatum defuncta legataria exstinctum sit.
[THE SAME, book thirteen of Responses.] Gaius Seius bequeathed tracts of land in different villages to Maevia and Seia and made the following provision: 'Furthermore, I wish that there be provided from the Potitian estates to the Lutatian estates three hundred thousand bundles of reeds annually and one thousand pounds of cleaned willow annually.' I ask whether that legacy was extinguished by the death of the legatee.
Paulus respondit seruitutem iure constitutam non uideri neque in personam neque in rem: sed fideicommissi petitionem competisse ei, cui praedia Lutatiana legata sunt, et ideo, cum annua legata fuerint, mortua legataria finitum legatum uideri.
Paulus replied that a servitude legally established does not appear to exist, either in person or in rem; but a petition for a trust belonged to the person to whom the Lutatian estates were bequeathed, and therefore, since these were annual legacies, the legacy is deemed to have ended upon the death of the legatee.

Notes

  1. §33.1.12.prpraestari autem uolo ... annua harundinis milia trecena — The passive infinitive praestari is used as a complement of the verb of wishing uolo, with annua harundinis milia trecena acting as its subject accusative in an accusative-plus-infinitive construction. The phrase praediis Lutatianis is in the dative, indicating the recipient of the provision.
  2. §33.1.12.prdefuncta legataria / mortua legataria — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the feminine noun legataria (the female legatee) in the ablative and the perfect participles defuncta and mortua. It functions here to express cause or time ('by/upon the death of the legatee').
  3. §33.1.12.prseruitutem iure constitutam non uideri — An accusative-with-infinitive construction in indirect speech introduced by the main verb respondit. The noun phrase seruitutem (iure constitutam) is the subject accusative, and uideri (to seem, to be deemed) is the infinitive. The phrase neque in personam neque in rem (neither in personam nor in rem) denies both types of servitudes.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.1.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.1.12.pr

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