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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.1.42.pr

Conditional Legacies to Sons or Slaves and Ownership

Passage 5373 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses how conditional legacies left to a son-in-power or a slave, as well as provisions left to another's slaves, legally belong to the father or master.

[AFRICANUS libro secundo quaestionum. ] §35.1.42.prFilio familias legatum est sub hac condicione 'si in potestate patris mansisset': magis patri legatum uideri ait et patrem suo nomine legatum petere.
[AFRICANUS in the second book of Questions.] A legacy was left to a son-in-power under this condition: 'if he should remain in the power of his father': he says that it rather seems to be a legacy to the father, and that the father claims the legacy in his own name.
idem iuris esse et si seruo similiter legetur: argumentum rei est, quod et si cibaria seruis Titii legentur, procul dubio domini est, non seruorum legatum.
The same rule of law applies even if a legacy is left to a slave in a similar manner: the proof of this is that even if provisions are left to the slaves of Titius, without a doubt the legacy belongs to the master, not to the slaves.

Notes

  1. §35.1.42.prmagis patri legatum uideri ait — With ait ('he says') acting as the governing verb, uideri ('to seem/be regarded') and petere ('to claim') form accusative-with-infinitive (AcI) constructions. The subject accusative of uideri is the implied legatum ('the legacy') from the preceding clause.
  2. §35.1.42.pridem iuris — idem (neuter nominative 'the same thing') is used substantively and governs the partitive genitive iuris ('of law'). It literally means 'the same of law,' referring to the same legal rule.
  3. §35.1.42.prdomini est — This is a possessive genitive (domini) used with the copula est, meaning 'belongs to the master' (literally, 'is of the master').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.1.42.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.1.42.pr

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