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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.2.46.pr

Promise to Pay the Retainable Share under Lex Falcidia

Passage 5491 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

An heir who promised to pay what they could have retained under the Lex Falcidia, out of respect for the testator's wishes, is compelled to fulfill that payment.

[ULPIANUS libro septuagesimo sexto ad edictum. ] §35.2.46.prQui quod per Falcidiam retinere poterat, uoluntatem testatoris secutus spopondit se daturum, cogendus est soluere.
[ULPIANUS in the seventy-sixth book on the Edict.] He who, having followed the will of the testator, promised that he would give what he could have retained under the Lex Falcidia, shall be compelled to pay.

Notes

  1. §35.2.46.prQui quod per Falcidiam retinere poterat, uoluntatem testatoris secutus spopondit se daturum — The clause introduced by the relative pronoun `Qui`, which serves as the subject, extends to `daturum`. Within this, `quod ... poterat` is a relative clause acting as the direct object of `daturum`, with its antecedent (`id`) omitted. `secutus` is the perfect participle of the deponent verb `sequor`, agreeing with `Qui` in the nominative and active in meaning ('having followed'). `se daturum` is an accusative with infinitive (future) with `esse` omitted, serving as the direct object of `spopondit`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.2.46.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.2.46.pr

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