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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §34.4.13.pr

Revocation of Legacy by Condemning an Unworthy Freedman

Passage 5245 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Presents a rescript of the Emperors Severus and Antoninus ruling that if a testator adds in a subsequent document that a freedman is most worthless, the legacy previously left to him is deemed to be revoked.

[MARCIANUS libro sexto institutionum. ] §34.4.13.prDiui Seuerus et Antoninus rescripserunt, cum testator postrema scriptura quaqua ratione motus pessimum libertum esse adiecisset, ea quae priore scriptura ei relicta fuerant adempta uideri.
[MARCIANUS in the sixth book of Institutes.] The Divine Severus and Antoninus replied by rescript that, when a testator in a subsequent writing, moved by whatever reason, added that a freedman was most worthless, the things which had been left to him in the prior writing are deemed to be revoked.

Notes

  1. §34.4.13.prpessimum libertum esse — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction serving as the object of the verb adiecisset. The subject of the infinitive refers contextually to the freedman who was the beneficiary.
  2. §34.4.13.pradempta uideri — Part of the accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction introduced by the main verb rescripserunt. The neuter plural accusative pronoun ea (the antecedent modified by the relative clause quae...fuerant) is the subject, and the participle adempta agrees with ea as the predicate of uideri.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §34.4.13.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:34.4.13.pr

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