Condition of a Daughter's Marriage and the Catonian Rule

Notes

1. §34.7.2.prlicet testamenti facti tempore fuerit impubes — The conjunction `licet` introduces a concessive clause ('although/even though') taking the subjunctive perfect `fuerit`. Since a female who is `impubes` (under the age of puberty) lacks the legal capacity to marry, the legacy would have been invalid if the testator had died immediately upon making the will. However, it is held valid if the condition is met at the actual time of death, constituting an exception to the Catonian rule.
2. §34.7.2.prsufficere uisum est — An impersonal expression. `uisum est` is the perfect third-person singular neuter of `uideri` ('to be held', 'to seem'). The logical subject is the subsequent conditional clause `si mortis tempore nupta inueniatur` ('if she is found to be married at the time of death').