Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §36.2.10.pr

Annual Legacies Deemed as Multiple Distinct Legacies

Passage 5651 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states the legal principle that a legacy bequeathed for each individual year is not a single legacy but consists of multiple legacies.

[IDEM libro uicesimo tertio ad Sabinum. ] §36.2.10.prCum in annos singulos legatur, non unum legatum esse, sed plura constat

[THE SAME in the twenty-third book on Sabinus.] When a legacy is bequeathed for each individual year, it is well established that there is not one legacy, but several.

Notes

§36.2.10.prconstat — The impersonal verb `constat` ("it is established / well known") takes the accusative and infinitive clause `non unum legatum esse, sed plura [legata esse]` as its subject. The words `legata esse` are understood after `plura` in contrast to `unum legatum esse`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §36.2.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:36.2.10.pr

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