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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §36.2.11.pr

Annual Legacies of Differing Things as Multiple Gifts

Passage 5652 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that in the case of annual legacies, it makes no difference to the principle of there being multiple legacies whether the same amount is bequeathed each year or different things (money, a slave, corn) are bequeathed in different years.

[IULIANUS libro trigesimo septimo digestorum. ] §36.2.11.pr(nec refert, singuli aurei in annos singulos legentur an in annum primum mille aurei, in secundum homo, in tertium frumentum)
[JULIANUS in the thirty-seventh book of the Digests.] (and it makes no difference whether single gold pieces are bequeathed for each individual year, or a thousand gold pieces for the first year, a slave for the second, and corn for the third)

Notes

  1. §36.2.11.prnec refert — The impersonal verb refert (it matters, it makes a difference) with its negation nec governs an indirect double question introduced by an, meaning "it makes no difference whether ... or ...".
  2. §36.2.11.prin secundum homo, in tertium frumentum — The verb legentur (or legantur, "are bequeathed") and the noun annum ("year") from the preceding clauses are elliptical in these two parallel phrases.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §36.2.11.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:36.2.11.pr

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