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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §34.4.19.pr

Revocation of Legacy and Survival of Fideicommissum

Passage 5251 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Modestinus opinions that even if a legacy left to a specific person is revoked, if the deceased had no intention of revoking the fideicommissum imposed upon that person, the heirs can be sued for the fulfillment of the fideicommissum.

[IDEM libro undecimo responsorum. ] §34.4.19.prModestinus respondit, si adimendo legatum, quod Maeuio relictum sit, fideicommissum ab eo datum defunctus reuocare noluit, heredes ex causa fideicommissi conueniri posse recte probari.
[THE SAME in the eleventh book of Opinions.] Modestinus replied that if, by revoking the legacy which had been left to Maevius, the deceased did not wish to revoke the fideicommissum imposed upon him, it is correctly proved that the heirs can be sued on the ground of the fideicommissum.

Notes

  1. §34.4.19.pradimendo legatum — The ablative gerund adimendo takes the accusative legatum as its direct object, expressing the means "by revoking the legacy."
  2. §34.4.19.prab eo datum — The pronoun eo refers to Maeuio in the preceding relative clause. The perfect participle datum modifies fideicommissum, indicating the fideicommissum to be discharged by him (i.e., imposed upon Maevius).
  3. §34.4.19.prheredes ex causa fideicommissi conueniri posse recte probari — An indirect statement governed by respondit. The main passive infinitive is probari, which takes the nested accusative and infinitive (A.C.I.) clause heredes ... conueniri posse ("that the heirs can be sued") as its subject. conueniri is the passive infinitive of conuenire, meaning "to be sued / summoned as a defendant."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §34.4.19.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:34.4.19.pr

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