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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.1.25.pr

Validity of an Annual Legacy to a Son under Paternal Power

Passage 4952 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Valens explains that an annual bequest of ten can be made to a son-in-power, provided that he remains under his father's paternal power.

[UALENS libro secundo fideicommissorum. ] §33.1.25.prFilio familias, quoad in potestate patris sit, in annos singulos dena dari possunt.
[VALENS, Trusts, book II.] Ten can be given every year to a son-in-power, as long as he is under his father's power.

Notes

  1. §33.1.25.prquoad in potestate patris sit — The conjunction quoad means "as long as." The verb sit is in the present subjunctive, chosen here to express a general or hypothetical condition governing the legacy rather than a specific historical fact.
  2. §33.1.25.prdena — The distributive numeral deni (ten each) in the nominative neuter plural, used substantively to mean "ten coins each" or "sums of ten." It serves as the subject of the plural verb possunt.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.1.25.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.1.25.pr

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