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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.1.41.pr

Conditional Legacies and Delegation Prior to Fulfillment

Passage 5372 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text discusses when conditional legacies begin to be owed and points out that they cannot be delegated in the interim before the condition is fulfilled.

[ULPIANUS libro trigesimo quarto ad edictum. ] §35.1.41.prLegata sub condicione relicta non statim, sed cum condicio exstiterit deberi incipiunt, ideoque interim delegari non potuerunt.
[ULPIANUS in the thirty-fourth book on the Edict.] Legacies left under a condition do not begin to be owed immediately, but when the condition has been fulfilled, and therefore in the meantime they could not be delegated.

Notes

  1. §35.1.41.prdeberi incipiunt — Meaning 'begin to be owed'. It refers to the point in time when the legacy becomes a legally enforceable debt (debitum) which the heir is obliged to pay to the legatee.
  2. §35.1.41.prdelegari — The verb delegare refers to 'delegation' (delegatio) in Roman law, an act of substituting a debtor or creditor to create a new obligation. It explains that since a conditional legacy is not yet a certain debt before the condition is fulfilled, it cannot be made the subject of such delegation.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.1.41.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.1.41.pr

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