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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.5.4.pr

Option on Cups Before Full Inspection and Retention

Passage 5023 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text addresses the legacy of a choice of cups, establishing that if the legatee makes a choice before all options are presented, the selection right remains unimpaired, with certain exceptions.

[PAULUS libro tertio ad Sabinum. ] §33.5.4.prScyphi electione data si non omnibus scyphis exhibitis legatarius elegisset, integram ei optionem manere placet (nisi ex his dumtaxat eligere uoluisset, cum sciret et alios esse):
[PAULUS, on Sabinus, Book III] When the choice of cups has been given, if the legatee made his choice before all the cups were presented, it is held that his option remains unimpaired (unless he wished to choose from those only, although he knew that there were others as well).

Notes

  1. §33.5.4.prnon omnibus scyphis exhibitis — An ablative absolute expressing an attendant circumstance or condition embedded within the conditional clause: 'when all the cups had not been presented'.
  2. §33.5.4.printegram ei optionem manere placet — The impersonal verb placet ('it is held/agreed') takes the accusative and infinitive (A.C.I.) construction (integram optionem manere) as its subject. The adjective integram modifies optionem predicatively, meaning 'intact' or 'unimpaired'.
  3. §33.5.4.prcum sciret — The clause cum sciret takes the subjunctive, indicating concession ('although he knew') or circumstance/cause ('since he knew'). The phrase et alios esse is an accusative and infinitive clause acting as the object of sciret, with alios referring to other cups (scyphos).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.5.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.5.4.pr

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