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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §34.4.9.pr

Interpretation of Legacies with Added Conditions or Amounts

Passage 5241 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian discusses the rules of interpretation when a testator bequeaths an amount to the same person first unconditionally and then again under a condition, or adds a different amount later.

[ULPIANUS libro quinto disputationum. ] §34.4.9.prCum centum, quae quis pure reliquit, condicione adiecta iterum eidem legauit, si quidem quasi aliam hanc summam esse uoluit, et quod pure relictum est statim debebitur et quod sub condicione adscriptum est, si condicio exstiterit.
[ULPIANUS in the fifth book of Disputations.] When a person has bequeathed a hundred, which he had left unconditionally, to the same person again with a condition added, if indeed he intended this to be as if it were another sum, both that which was left unconditionally will be due immediately, and that which was written down under a condition will be due if the condition is fulfilled.
quod si eandem summam mutata uoluntate sub condicione reliquit, pura datio condicionalis effecta uidebitur.
But if, having changed his mind, he left the same sum under a condition, the unconditional gift will be deemed to have been made conditional.
quare si in eodem testamento, in quo centum adscripserat, postea quinquaginta reliquerit, si quidem alia uoluit esse haec quinquaginta, centum quinquaginta debebuntur, sin uero quinquaginta tantum deberi uoluit, quinquaginta tantum debebuntur.
Therefore, if in the same testament in which he had written down a hundred, he later left fifty, if indeed he intended this fifty to be other than the first sum, a hundred and fifty will be due; but if he intended only fifty to be due, only fifty will be due.
idem est et si in codicillis id fuerit factum.
The same applies even if this was done in a codicil.

Notes

  1. §34.4.9.prpure — A legal adverb meaning "unconditionally," without any condition or time limit. Its antonym is sub condicione (under a condition).
  2. §34.4.9.prpura datio condicionalis effecta uidebitur — A construction of uidebitur ("it will be deemed") with a nominative complement. pura datio is the subject, and condicionalis effecta ("made conditional") is the nominative complement.
  3. §34.4.9.prquinquaginta tantum deberi uoluit — An accusative with infinitive construction acting as the object of uoluit. quinquaginta tantum is the subject accusative of the passive infinitive deberi, meaning "he intended only fifty to be due."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §34.4.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:34.4.9.pr

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