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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.1.14.pr

Fictitious Fulfillment of Conditions due to Municipal Inaction

Passage 5345 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section presents the opinion of Sabinus and Proculus that if a person appointed as heir under a condition is ready to fulfill it, but is prevented by the failure of the municipality to provide a place, the condition is deemed fulfilled, and the same rule applies to legacies.

[POMPONIUS libro octauo ad Sabinum. ] §35.1.14.pr'Titius si statuas in municipio posuerit, heres esto'. si paratus est ponere, sed locus a municipibus ei non datur, Sabinus Proculus heredem eum fore et in legato idem iuris esse dicunt.
[POMPONIUS in the eighth book on Sabinus.] 'If Titius sets up statues in the municipality, let him be heir.' If he is prepared to set them up, but a place is not given to him by the citizens of the municipality, Sabinus and Proculus say that he will be heir and that the same rule of law applies in the case of a legacy.

Notes

  1. §35.1.14.pridem iuris — A partitive genitive construction where the genitive iuris ('of law') depends on the neuter demonstrative pronoun idem ('the same thing'). It literally means 'the same of law', translating to 'the same rule of law' or 'the same legal treatment'.
  2. §35.1.14.prheredem eum fore et in legato idem iuris esse dicunt — Parallel construction of two accusative with infinitive (AcI) clauses dependent on the main verb dicunt ('they say'). The first clause is heredem eum fore (where fore is the future infinitive, a contraction of futurum esse), meaning 'that he will be heir', and the second is in legato idem iuris esse, meaning 'that the same rule of law exists in a legacy.' Both function as the objects of dicunt.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.1.14.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.1.14.pr

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