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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §34.4.8.pr

Death of the New Legatee and Non-Reversion

Passage 5240 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that even if the transferee of a legacy dies during the lifetime of the testator, the transferred legacy does not revert to the original legatee.

[IULIANUS libro trigesimo secundo digestorum. ] §34.4.8.prEt ideo si uiuo testatore mortuus fuerit is, in quem translatum legatum fuerit, nihilo magis ad eum, a quo translatum fuerit, pertinebit.
[JULIANUS in the thirty-second book of the Digests.] And therefore, if during the lifetime of the testator the person to whom the legacy was transferred should die, it will no more belong to the person from whom it was transferred.

Notes

  1. §34.4.8.pruiuo testatore — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun testatore and the adjective uiuo, expressing the temporal condition 'while the testator is still alive'. Since the verb esse has no present participle, this is a classical example where the ablative absolute is formed simply by a noun and an adjective.
  2. §34.4.8.prnihilo magis — The ablative nihilo (from the neuter noun nihil) is an ablative of measure of difference, modifying the comparative adverb magis to mean 'no more' or 'not at all'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §34.4.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:34.4.8.pr

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