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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.2.35.pr

Additional Bequests to Slaves and Expense Deductions

Passage 5480 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian introduces a senatorial decree and the opinion of Scaevola concerning the application of the Lex Falcidia and the deduction of expenses on behalf of the slave when an additional bequest is made to the testator's slave.

[ULPIANUS libro sexto disputationum. ] §35.2.35.prPlane si quid sit praeterea legatum ipsi seruo, Falcidiae locum fore senatus declarauit.
[ULPIAN in the sixth book of his Disputations.] Clearly, the senate declared that if anything further is bequeathed to the slave himself, there will be room for the Lex Falcidia.
unde Scaeuola ait in eo, quod praeterea seruo legatum est, ita Falcidiam admittendam, ut inde et quod pro seruo praestandum est sumatur.
Hence Scaevola says that, in regard to what is further bequeathed to the slave, the Lex Falcidia is to be admitted in such a way that from it there is also deducted what must be performed on behalf of the slave.

Notes

  1. §35.2.35.prFalcidiae locum fore — fore is the future infinitive (futurum esse), in indirect discourse dependent on the main verb declarauit. It corresponds to Falcidiae locus erit ("there will be room for the Lex Falcidia") in direct speech.
  2. §35.2.35.prita Falcidiam admittendam — This is an accusative with infinitive construction in indirect discourse introduced by ait, with the copula esse omitted. The correlative adverb ita points forward to the consecutive ut clause (ut inde... sumatur).
  3. §35.2.35.prquod pro seruo praestandum est — praestandum est is a passive periphrastic construction expressing obligation (using the gerundive). In this legal context, it refers to "what must be paid or provided as the value (or cost of manumission) of the slave."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.2.35.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.2.35.pr

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