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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §36.3.14.pr-36.3.14.1

Security for Trusts and Exemption from Unnecessary Security

Passage 5687 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The application of the security stipulation to trusts (fideicommissa) and the rescript of Emperor Pius exempting the heir from providing unnecessary security when it is clear that no trust exists.

[ULPIANUS libro septuagensimo nono ad edictum. ] §36.3.14.prHaec stipulatio et in fideicommissis locum habet, siue pure fideicommissum sit relictum siue ex die certa uel incerta uel sub condicione, siue res aliqua siue hereditas siue ius aliquod relictum est.
[ULPIAN in the seventy-ninth book on the Edict.] This stipulation also has place in case of trusts, whether the trust has been left unconditionally, or from a certain or uncertain day, or under a condition, and whether some specific thing, or an inheritance, or some right has been left.
§36.3.14.1Diuus quoque Pius rescripsit, quotiens euidens res est, ut certum sit nullo modo fideicommisso locum esse, perquam iniquum esse superuacua cautione onerari heredem.
The Divine Pius also replied by rescript that, whenever the matter is so obvious that it is certain that there is in no way any room for a trust, it is extremely inequitable that the heir should be burdened with an unnecessary security.

Notes

  1. 36.3.14.1ut certum sit — ut introduces a consecutive (result) clause, modifying the degree of euidens res est ("the matter is so obvious that it is certain...").
  2. 36.3.14.1perquam iniquum esse superuacua cautione onerari heredem — An accusative-with-infinitive construction reporting the emperor's reply (dependent on rescripsit). The passive infinitive phrase onerari heredem ("that the heir be burdened") serves as the subject of the impersonal expression perquam iniquum esse ("is highly inequitable"). superuacua cautione is an ablative of means modifying onerari.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §36.3.14.pr-36.3.14.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:36.3.14.pr-36.3.14.1

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