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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.7.2.pr-33.7.2.1

Prelegacy Shares and Delivery of Estate Equipment

Passage 5059 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Papinian discusses the share distribution of a prelegacy given to two among multiple appointed heirs, and rules that the equipment of an estate (dotes praediorum) is not provided to the legatee unless the estate is bequeathed as equipped.

[PAPINIANUS libro septimo responsorum. ] §33.7.2.prCum pater pluribus filiis heredibus scriptis duobus praeceptionem bonorum auiae praeter partes hereditarias dedisset, pro partibus coheredum uiriles habituros legatarios placuit.
[PAPINIANUS, Opinions, Book 7] When a father had given to two of his several sons who were appointed heirs, in addition to their hereditary shares, a prelegacy of their grandmother's property, it was held that the legatees should hold equal shares in proportion to the shares of the co-heirs.
§33.7.2.1Dotes praediorum, quae Graeco uocabulo ἐνθήκαι appellantur, cum non instructa legantur, legatario non praestantur.
The equipment of estates (dotes praediorum), which are called ἐνθῆκαι in the Greek tongue, are not furnished to the legatee when the estates are not bequeathed as equipped (instructa).

Notes

  1. §33.7.2.pruiriles — The word 'uiriles' is elliptical for 'uiriles partes' (equal shares per capita). It functions as the object of 'habituros [esse]' in the accusative-with-infinitive construction.
  2. §33.7.2.1instructa — A neuter plural nominative adjective. It functions as a predicate adjective modifying 'praedia' (estates, implied from the preceding genitive 'praediorum'), which is the subject of the passive subjunctive verb 'legantur'. Thus, 'unless the estates are bequeathed as equipped'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.7.2.pr-33.7.2.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.7.2.pr-33.7.2.1

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