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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.8.10.pr

Legacy of Specific Items to Prevent Peculium Deductions

Passage 5099 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that in order to prevent the deduction of debts owed to the master when legacying a peculium to a slave or a son, one must legacy the specific items contained in the peculium individually, rather than the peculium as a whole.

[Pomponius libro septimo ad Sabinum. ] §33.8.10.prSi peculium seruo uel filio praelegare uelis, ne deducatur id quod tibi debebitur, specialiter ea quae in peculio erunt leganda sunt.
[POMPONIUS on Sabinus, Book VII] If you wish to pre-legacy a peculium to a slave or a son, so that what will be owed to you is not deducted, those things which will be in the peculium must be legacyed specifically.

Notes

  1. §33.8.10.prne deducatur — This introduces a negative purpose clause ('lest it be deducted' or 'so that it is not deducted') with the third-person singular present subjunctive passive `deducatur`, explaining the purpose of the action in the main clause.
  2. §33.8.10.prleganda sunt — A passive periphrastic conjugation denoting obligation, consisting of the gerundive `leganda` and `sunt` (third-person plural). The subject is the neuter plural demonstrative pronoun `ea` (the antecedent of `quae in peculio erunt`), with which the gerundive agrees in gender, number, and case.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.8.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.8.10.pr

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