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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.1.105.pr

Dispositions Pending Condition and First Legatee Priority

Passage 5436 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses the legal effect when an heir legacyes a conditionally legacyed land to another while the condition is pending, and the priority of the first legatee once the condition is fulfilled.

[POMPONIUS libro quinto epistularum. ] §35.1.105.prSi fundum a testatore sub condicione legatum heres alii pendente condicione legauit, post exsistentem condicionem, quae priori testamento praeposita fuerat, neque proprietas a priore legatario recedit nec locum religiosum in eo fundo heres facere nec seruitutem imponere poterit: sed et imposita seruitus finietur exsistente condicione.
[POMPONIUS in the fifth book of Epistles.] If an heir, while a condition is pending, has legacyed to another a tract of land which was legacyed under a condition by the testator, after the fulfillment of the condition which had been attached to the first will, the ownership does not depart from the first legatee, nor can the heir make a religious place in that land or impose a servitude; but even an imposed servitude will be terminated upon the fulfillment of the condition.

Notes

  1. §35.1.105.prpost exsistentem condicionem — The preposition 'post' followed by an accusative noun and a present participle in the accusative case ('exsistentem') forms a dominant participle construction, meaning 'after the fulfillment of the condition'. The relative clause 'quae... praeposita fuerat' adjectivally modifies 'condicionem'.
  2. §35.1.105.prlocum religiosum — Refers to a 'religious place' (especially a burial site). Under Roman law, burying a body on a tract of land to make it a 'locus religiosus' removes it from private commerce. This passage shows that even if the heir attempts this while the condition is pending, the first legatee's ownership prevails upon the fulfillment of the condition, rendering the heir's act void.
  3. §35.1.105.prsed et — An emphatic conjunction meaning 'but also' or 'but even'. It emphasizes that even if a servitude (seruitus) has been imposed while the condition was pending, that servitude will terminate at the moment the condition is fulfilled ('exsistente condicione', ablative absolute).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.1.105.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.1.105.pr

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