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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.2.9.pr

Obligation to Perform Trust Left by Usufruct Legatee

Passage 4961 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that if a trust is left by a legatee of a usufruct, the heir holding the usufruct must perform the trust even if the usufruct never reached the legatee, and this rule also applies to a soldier's will if the legatee repudiates the legacy or predeceases the testator.

[ULPIANUS libro octauo disputationum. ] §33.2.9.prSi ab eo, cui legatus esset usus fructus, fideicommissum fuerit relictum, licet usus fructus ad legatarium non peruenerit, heres tamen, penes quem usus fructus remanet, fideicommissum praestat.
[ULPIAN, On Disputations, Book VIII.] If a trust has been left by him to whom a usufruct had been bequeathed, although the usufruct does not reach the legatee, the heir nevertheless, in whose hands the usufruct remains, performs the trust.
quod et in militis testamento erit dicendum, si legatarius, a quo fideicommissum relictum est, repudiauerit legatum uel uiuo testatore decesserit.
This must also be said in the case of a soldier's testament, if the legatee, by whom the trust was left, has repudiated the legacy or died during the lifetime of the testator.

Notes

  1. 33.2.9.prcui legatus esset — The imperfect subjunctive esset in the relative clause embedded within the conditional protasis (Si... fuerit relictum) is due to subjunctive attraction (attractio modi) or represents a hypothetical projection within the legal setup.
  2. 33.2.9.prlicet... non peruenerit — The concessive conjunction licet here takes the perfect subjunctive peruenerit, meaning "although [the usufruct] has/does not come [to the legatee]."
  3. 33.2.9.pruiuo testatore — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the adjective uiuo and the noun testatore, expressing a simultaneous temporal circumstance: "while the testator was still alive" or "during the lifetime of the testator."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.2.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.2.9.pr

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