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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.1.3.pr

Treating Impossible Conditions in Wills as Non-Existent

Passage 5334 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that the rule has been established that impossible conditions attached to a testament are to be treated as void or non-existent.

[IDEM libro sexto ad Sabinum. ] §35.1.3.prOptinuit impossibiles condiciones testamento adscriptas pro nullis habendas.
[THE SAME in the sixth book on Sabinus.] It has become the established rule that impossible conditions written in a will are to be held as null.

Notes

  1. §35.1.3.proptinuit — Used impersonally to mean "it has become the established rule" or "it has prevailed." It governs the accusative and infinitive (A.c.I.) clause impossibiles condiciones ... habendas [esse].
  2. §35.1.3.prhabendas — The feminine accusative plural form of the gerundive, serving as the predicate of the accusative and infinitive clause with the copula esse omitted. It agrees in gender, number, and case with impossibiles condiciones and expresses necessity or propriety ("to be held").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.1.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.1.3.pr

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