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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.1.18.pr

Negative Conditions and the Mucian Guarantee

Passage 5349 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that a person who receives a legacy or inheritance subject to a negative condition (not doing something) must provide security through the Mucian guarantee to the person who would be entitled to the property if the condition were to fail.

[IDEM libro octauo decimo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §35.1.18.prIs, cui sub condicione non faciendi aliquid relictum est, ei scilicet cauere debet Muciana cautione, ad quem iure ciuili, deficiente condicione, hoc legatum eaue hereditas pertinere potest.
[THE SAME in the eighteenth book on the provincial edict.] He to whom something has been left under a condition of not doing something must, of course, provide security by means of the Mucian guarantee to the person to whom, if the condition fails, this legacy or inheritance can belong under civil law.

Notes

  1. §35.1.18.prcui sub condicione non faciendi aliquid relictum est — The phrase relictum est is used impersonally (or with an implied neuter subject) meaning 'something has been left as a legacy or inheritance.' The phrase non faciendi aliquid is a genitive gerund phrase specifying the nature of the condicione (a condition of not doing something).
  2. §35.1.18.prei ... ad quem ... pertinere potest — The dative pronoun ei serves as the indirect object of the main verb phrase cauere debet ('must provide security'). The relative clause beginning with ad quem modifies ei, identifying the person who, under civil law, would be entitled to the property if the condition were not met.
  3. §35.1.18.prdeficiente condicione — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the present participle deficiente and the noun condicione, meaning 'if the condition fails (is not fulfilled).' In the context of a negative condition (not doing something), this refers to the situation where the forbidden act is performed, thereby violating the condition.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.1.18.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.1.18.pr

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