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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §38.2.7.pr

Prohibition of Partial Approval and Rejection of Wills

Passage 5943 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Gaius explains that it is legally absurd for the same person to partly approve and partly overturn the decision of the deceased.

[GAIUS libro quinto decimo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §38.2.7.prNam absurdum uidetur licere eidem partim comprobare iudicium defuncti, partim euertere.
[GAIUS from the fifteenth book on the provincial edict.] For it seems absurd that the same person is permitted partly to approve the decision of the deceased, and partly to overturn it.

Notes

  1. §38.2.7.prabsurdum uidetur licere — The infinitive clause licere eidem ... (that the same person is permitted...) acts as the subject of the impersonal expression absurdum uidetur (it seems absurd). Furthermore, the two infinitives comprobare and euertere depend on licere, with eidem (dative) functioning as their logical subject.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §38.2.7.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:38.2.7.pr

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