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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.1.99.pr

Tacitly Implied External Conditions and Legacies

Passage 5430 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Papinianus points out that conditions arising from external sources rather than from the text of the will itself, namely those tacitly implied, do not render legacies conditional in the legal sense.

[PAPINIANUS libro octauo decimo quaestionum. ] §35.1.99.prCondiciones extrinsecus, non ex testamento uenientes, id est quae tacite inesse uideantur, non faciunt legata condicionalia.
[PAPINIANUS in the eighteenth book of Questions.] Conditions coming from outside, not from the will, that is, which seem to be tacitly inherent, do not make legacies conditional.

Notes

  1. §35.1.99.prquae tacite inesse uideantur — The antecedent of the relative pronoun `quae` is the subject of the sentence, `condiciones`. The verb `uideantur` is in the present subjunctive as a subjunctive of characteristic, defining or describing the nature of such conditions ("such as seem to be...").
  2. §35.1.99.prfaciunt legata condicionalia — The verb `faciunt` takes the accusative noun `legata` as its direct object and the accusative adjective `condicionalia` as its predicative complement, forming a double accusative construction ("to make legacies conditional").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.1.99.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.1.99.pr

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