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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §34.1.21.pr

Exclusion of Housing and Clothing from Legacies of Food

Passage 5157 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that when daily allowances or food are bequeathed, there is no obligation to provide habitation, clothing, or footwear, since the testator only intended to provide food.

[ULPIANUS libro secundo fideicommissorum. ] §34.1.21.prDiariis uel cibariis relictis neque habitationem neque uestiarium neque calciarium deberi palam est, quoniam de cibo tantum testator sensit.
[ULPIAN, in the second book on Trust-bequests.] It is clear that when daily allowances or food have been left, neither habitation, nor clothing, nor footwear is owed, since the testator intended only concerning food.

Notes

  1. §34.1.21.prDiariis uel cibariis relictis — Ablative absolute construction, here interpreted conditionally: "when daily allowances or food have been left."
  2. §34.1.21.prdeberi — Forms an accusative with infinitive (ACI) construction functioning as the subject of the impersonal expression palam est ("it is clear"). The subjects of the infinitive deberi are the accusatives habitationem, uestiarium, and calciarium.
  3. §34.1.21.prsensit — The third-person singular perfect of sentire ("to feel", "to think"), used here in the sense of "intended" or "had in mind" regarding the testator's will.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §34.1.21.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:34.1.21.pr

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