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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.5.11.pr

Exclusion of Fruits and Rents from Gifts

Passage 6226 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Specifies that when the extent of a donation is in question, it is deemed not to include offspring, fruits, rents, or wages.

[GAIUS libro tertio de legatis ad edictum praetoris urbani. ] §39.5.11.prCum de modo donationis quaeritur, neque partus nomine neque fructuum neque pensionum neque mercedum ulla donatio facta esse uidetur.
[GAIUS in the third book on legacies on the edict of the urban praetor.] When the extent of a donation is in question, no donation is deemed to have been made under the head of offspring, or of fruits, or of rents, or of wages.

Notes

  1. §39.5.11.prmodo — Here, "modus" means "extent," "measure," or "limit," rather than "manner" or "mode." It refers to the question of how far the scope of the donation extends.
  2. §39.5.11.prpartus nomine neque fructuum — The ablative "nomine" (under the head of, by reason of) syntactically modifies "partus" (offspring, especially of a female slave), but its semantic force also extends to the subsequent parallel genitives "fructuum," "pensionum," and "mercedum."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.5.11.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.5.11.pr

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