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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.4.4.pr

Postponement of Legacies and Due Dates for Dowries

Passage 5006 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Presents Africanus' view that the postponement of general legacies does not affect the bequest of a dowry, since a dowry is subject to its own specific deadline.

[AFRICANUS libro quinto quaestionum. ] §33.4.4.prCum uolgari modo dies legatorum profertur, nihil eam rem ad dotis relegationem pertinere ait, quia suum diem habeat.
[AFRICANUS, in the fifth book of Questions.] When the date of legacies is postponed in the ordinary way, he says that this circumstance has no relevance to the bequest of a dowry, because the dowry has its own date.

Notes

  1. §33.4.4.prdies legatorum — The date of legacies (or day of performance). Here dies refers to the legal date or deadline on which legacies become due or enforceable.
  2. §33.4.4.prnihil — An adverbial accusative modifying pertinere (to relate to), expressing a strong negation: 'not at all' or 'in no way.'
  3. §33.4.4.prquia suum diem habeat — The subjunctive habeat is due to the indirect speech (subordinate clause in oratio obliqua) introduced by the main verb ait. The possessive suum refers to the dos (dowry), which under Roman law had its own distinct legal deadline for return, separate from general legacies.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.4.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.4.4.pr

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