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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.1.69.pr

Legacy Conditional on Legatee's Will and Non-Transmission

Passage 5400 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Regarding a legacy conditional upon the legatee's own wish, it is stated that the right does not pass to the heir unless the legatee himself had wished to receive it, as the condition is personal.

[GAIUS libro tertio decimo ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §35.1.69.prSi ita expressum erit: 'Titio, si uoluerit, do lego', apud Labeonem Proculus notat non aliter ad heredem legatarii pertinere, quam si ipse legatarius uoluerit ad se pertinere, quia condicio personae iniuncta uidetur.
[GAIUS in the thirteenth book on the Lex Julia et Papia.] If it should be expressed in this way: 'To Titius, if he wishes, I give and bequeath', Proculus notes on Labeo that it does not belong to the heir of the legatee in any other way than if the legatee himself wished it to belong to himself, because the condition seems to be attached to the person.

Notes

  1. §35.1.69.prnon aliter ... quam si — A correlative construction meaning "not otherwise ... than if" (i.e., "only if"). Here, the infinitive clause in indirect speech 'non aliter ad heredem legatarii pertinere' (it does not belong to the heir of the legatee) is restricted by the conditional clause 'quam si ipse legatarius uoluerit ad se pertinere' (unless the legatee himself wished it to belong to himself).
  2. §35.1.69.prpersonae — A dative case used with 'iniuncta', the perfect passive participle of 'iniungo' (to impose or attach to). It indicates that the condition is attached "to the person" of the legatee rather than to the heirs in general.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.1.69.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.1.69.pr

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