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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.1.76.pr

Condition of Dying Childless and Adoption as Evasion

Passage 5407 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section rules that a fideicommissum left with the condition 'if any of them should die without children' cannot be avoided or excluded through the fiction of adoption.

[IDEM libro sexto responsorum. ] §35.1.76.prFideicommissum a filiis relictum 'si quis ex his sine liberis diem suum obierit' adoptionis commento non excluditur.
[THE SAME in the sixth book of Responses.] A fideicommissum left by sons under the condition 'if any of them should die without children' is not excluded by the device of adoption.

Notes

  1. §35.1.76.pradoptionis commento — commento is an ablative of means, and adoptionis is a genitive of definition ('the fiction/artifice of adoption'). commentum (contrivance, fiction, device) refers to the artificial attempt to circumvent the condition of dying childless by using the legal fiction of adoption.
  2. §35.1.76.prdiem suum obierit — diem suum obire is a Latin idiom meaning 'to meet one's day' or 'to die.' obierit is either a future perfect indicative or a perfect subjunctive in the conditional clause introduced by si quis.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.1.76.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.1.76.pr

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