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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.1.5.pr-35.1.5.1

Fulfillment of Conditions by Wards and Sons-in-Power

Passage 5336 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus states that a ward can fulfill conditions without a tutor's authority, and a slave or a son-in-power can do so without their master's or father's order; he explains that the ward becoming a necessary heir is due to the law of power, not the condition.

[PAULUS libro secundo ad Sabinum. ] §35.1.5.prCondicionibus pupillus et sine tutoris auctoritate parere potest.
[PAULUS in the second book on Sabinus.] A ward can comply with conditions even without the authority of a tutor.
nec quem moueri, quod expleta condicione necessarius heres aliquando esse potest: nam hoc iure potestatis fieri, non condicionis expletae.
Nor should anyone be troubled by the fact that, upon the fulfillment of a condition, he can sometimes become a necessary heir; for this comes about by the law of power, not of the fulfilled condition.
§35.1.5.1Item seruus uel filius familias sine iussu patris uel domini condicionem implere possunt, quia eo facto nemo fraudatur.
Likewise, a slave or a son-in-power can fulfill a condition without the order of his father or master, because no one is defrauded by that act.

Notes

  1. §35.1.5.prnec quem moueri — quem is the accusative singular of the indefinite pronoun quis (equivalent here to quemquam, 'anyone'). moueri is the present passive infinitive. The phrase functions as an accusative with infinitive construction (or an independent infinitive) with an omitted impersonal verb like oportet or debet, expressing a prohibition: 'nor should anyone be troubled.'
  2. §35.1.5.prnam hoc iure potestatis fieri, non condicionis expletae — fieri is the present infinitive (with a passive/neutral sense of 'to happen' or 'to come about'), whose subject is the demonstrative pronoun hoc (becoming a necessary heir). This infinitive depends on the indirect discourse style following the previous statement, or implies an omitted verb. In the second part, non condicionis expletae ellipticaly shares the ablative iure ('by the right/law of'), meaning 'not by the right of the fulfilled condition.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.1.5.pr-35.1.5.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.1.5.pr-35.1.5.1

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