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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.6.13.pr

Bequest of Estate Wine and Substitution in Bad Harvest Years

Passage 5054 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian expresses agreement with Sabinus's view that if a legacy of a specific estate's wine fails to produce in a given year, the heir should deliver the specified amount from the previous year's vintage, provided this is not contrary to the testator's intent.

[ULPIANUS libro uicesimo tertio ad Sabinum. ] §33.6.13.pr'Ex eo uino quod in illo fundo nascetur, heres meus amphoras decem quotannis in annos singulos dato'. quo anno natum non fuisset, ex superiore anno eius fundi eum numerum amphorarum heredem daturum Sabinus existimat.
[ULPIAN, On Sabinus, Book 23] 'From that wine which shall be produced on that estate, let my heir give ten amphorae annually for each year.' Sabinus is of the opinion that, in any year in which none has been produced, the heir shall give that number of amphorae from the previous year's produce of that estate.
quae sententia, si uoluntas non aduersetur, mihi quoque placet.
This opinion, if the testator's intention does not oppose it, also pleases me.

Notes

  1. §33.6.13.prdato — A future active imperative (third-person singular), typical of legal and testamentary formulas, indicating a binding instruction to the heir ('let him give').
  2. §33.6.13.prquo anno natum non fuisset — The verb natum fuisset is the pluperfect subjunctive (used here in the sense of agricultural produce being 'born' or grown). It is in the subjunctive because it stands in a subordinate clause within the indirect statement introduced by Sabinus existimat.
  3. §33.6.13.prex superiore anno eius fundi — The noun anno is in the ablative governed by the preposition ex. Literally 'from the previous year of that estate', meaning from the vintage or produce of the previous year of that estate.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.6.13.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.6.13.pr

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