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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §35.3.2.pr

Relief by Exception for Promised Value of a Perished Legacy

Passage 5543 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that even if the promisor had promised to pay whatever the value of the bequeathed thing might be, they should still be assisted by an exception if the thing perished.

[PAULUS libro septuagesimo quinto ad edictum. ] §35.3.2.pretiamsi quanti ca res sit promisit,
[PAULUS libro septuagesimo quinto ad edictum.] even if he promised as much as that matter is worth,

Notes

  1. §35.3.2.prca — The word 'ca' in the text is a typographical error or scribal corruption for 'ea'. Together with 'quanti... res sit', it forms an indirect question clause ('how much that matter is worth'), where 'quanti' is a genitive of value and 'sit' is in the subjunctive mood.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §35.3.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:35.3.2.pr

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