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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.2.71.pr

Agreement to Pay Legacies in Full on Sale of Inheritance

Passage 5516 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that an heir, when selling an inheritance, can validly agree to pay legacies in full despite the application of the Falcidian law, and provides the rationale behind it.

[PAULUS libro trigesimo secundo ad edictum. ] §35.2.71.prPotest heres in uendenda hereditate cauere, ut et lege Falcidia interueniente solida legata praestentur, quia ea lex heredis causa lata est nec fraus ei fit, si ius suum deminuat heres.
[PAULUS, in the thirty-second book on the Edict.] An heir can, in selling an inheritance, provide that the legacies shall be paid in full even if the Falcidian law intervenes, because that law was enacted for the benefit of the heir, and no injury is done to him if the heir diminishes his own right.

Notes

  1. 35.2.71.prin uendenda hereditate — A gerundive construction where the gerundive uendenda agrees with the noun hereditate, governed by the preposition in, expressing the circumstance or process of selling an inheritance.
  2. 35.2.71.pret lege Falcidia interueniente — The conjunction et is used adverbially to mean "even", modifying the ablative absolute clause lege Falcidia interueniente ("with the Falcidian law intervening").
  3. 35.2.71.prcauere, ut ... praestentur — The verb cauere ("to take precautions", "to stipulate") governs a noun clause introduced by ut with the present subjunctive passive praestentur, expressing the content of the contractual agreement or stipulation.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.2.71.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.2.71.pr

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