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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §36.3.6.pr-36.3.6.1

Limits on Security for Uncertain Trusts and Public Exemption

Passage 5679 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On the judge's setting of a limit for guarantors when the sum of a trust is uncertain, and the exemption of public bodies from providing security, requiring instead a simple promise to respect the deceased's will.

[ULPIANUS libro sexto fideicommissorum. ] §36.3.6.prSi quando incerta summa est fideicommissi, qui cognoscit taxationem quoque fideiussores petuntur.
[ULPIANUS libro sexto fideicommissorum.] If at any time the sum of a trust is uncertain, the person who hears the case (must also determine) the limit within which guarantors are demanded.
§36.3.6.1Admonendi autem sumus rebus publicis remitti solere satisdationem fideicommissorum etiam si quando necessitas dandi intercedat: repromissio plane exigenda est uoluntati defuncti statu iri.
However, we must be reminded that public bodies are usually excused from providing security for trusts, even if at times a necessity of providing it arises; but a simple promise must clearly be exacted that the will of the deceased shall be stood by.

Notes

  1. 36.3.6.prtaxationem quoque — The predicate verb (such as "constituere debet") governing the accusative "taxationem" is missing in the text. In context, it means that the judge ("qui cognoscit") must "determine" or "fix" the limit ("taxatio") within which guarantors are demanded.
  2. 36.3.6.1uoluntati defuncti statu iri — "statu iri" is considered a corrupted form of the future passive infinitive "staturum iri" of the intransitive verb "stare" (or of "sistere" / "statuere"), based on the idiom "stare uoluntati" (to abide by the wishes). Here it forms an accusative with infinitive clause meaning "that the will of the deceased will be stood by."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §36.3.6.pr-36.3.6.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:36.3.6.pr-36.3.6.1

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