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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.10.14.pr

Exclusion of Equipment and Furniture in Real Estate Legacies

Passage 5136 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states the legal principle that when land or a house is bequeathed, its equipment or furniture does not accrue to the legacy unless specifically mentioned in the will.

[CALLISTRATUS libro tertio de cognitionibus. ] §33.10.14.prFundo legato instrumentum eius non aliter legato cedit, nisi specialiter id expressum sit: nam et domo legata neque instrumentum eius neque supellex aliter legato cedit, quam si id ipsum nominatim expressum a cestatore fuerit.
[CALLISTRATUS, in his third book on Extraordinary Proceedings.] When land is bequeathed, its equipment does not accrue to the legacy unless this has been specially expressed; for also when a house is bequeathed, neither its equipment nor its furniture accrues to the legacy, unless that very thing has been expressly named by the testator.

Notes

  1. §33.10.14.prFundo legato — Ablative absolute consisting of the noun fundus and the perfect participle of legare, expressing a condition ('when land is bequeathed'). The subsequent domo legata has the same construction.
  2. §33.10.14.prlegato cedit — legato is the dative singular of the neuter noun legatum (legacy). The intransitive verb cedere with a dative means 'to accrue to' or 'to pass to'.
  3. §33.10.14.pra cestatore — A scribal error for testatore (ablative singular of testator, 'testator'). Used with the preposition a (ab) to express the agent ('by the testator').

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