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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §36.1.33.pr

Trust for a Colony and Restitution of Inheritance Fruits

Passage 5586 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

In response to a query on whether an heir, required by testament to secure the transfer of "money" to a colony, must also restore the fruits gathered from the inheritance, Celsus replies in the affirmative, as if explicitly stated.

[CELSUS libro uicensimo digestorum. ] §36.1.33.prBallista filium familias heredem instituit ita: 'Rebellianus si cauerit coloniae Philippensium, si sine liberis morietur, quantacumque pecunia ex hereditate deue bonis meis ad eum peruenit, eam pecuniam omnem ad coloniam Philippensium peruenturam'. respondi: ex his uerbis quae proponis, id est 'pecuniam', existimo etiam fructus, quos ex hereditate percepit, restituere eum debere, perinde quasi specialiter hoc testator expressisset.
[CELSUS, in the twentieth book of his Digests.] Ballista appointed a son of the family as his heir as follows: "If Rebellianus provides security to the colony of the Philippians that, if he dies without children, whatever money comes to him from my inheritance or goods, all that money shall go to the colony of the Philippians." I replied: from these words which you propose, namely "money", I think that he ought to restore also the fruits which he has gathered from the inheritance, just as if the testator had specifically expressed this.

Notes

  1. §36.1.33.prsi cauerit... peruenturam — The content of the security (cautio) denoted by cauerit (future perfect of cavere, "to provide security") is expressed by the accusative with infinitive clause eam pecuniam omnem... peruenturam [esse]. coloniae Philippensium is the dative object of cauerit (the party to whom security is given).
  2. §36.1.33.prid est 'pecuniam' — Although placed as an apposition to explanatory his uerbis (ablative), the quoted word pecuniam (accusative) retains its original grammatical case from the context of the testament (eam pecuniam omnem...).
  3. §36.1.33.prperinde quasi... expressisset — perinde quasi ("just as if") takes the pluperfect subjunctive (expressisset) to express a contrary-to-fact assumption (the testator did not actually express this explicitly).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §36.1.33.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:36.1.33.pr

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