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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.6.11.pr

Donation Mortis Causa by a Father for His Son during Marriage

Passage 6261 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It provides that a father can lawfully make a donation mortis causa on behalf of his son, even during the son's marriage.

[IDEM libro trigensimo tertio ad Sabinum. ] §39.6.11.prMortis causa filii sui pater recte donare poterit etiam constante matrimonio filii.
[THE SAME, from the thirty-third book on Sabinus.] A father can lawfully make a donation mortis causa on behalf of his son, even during the son's marriage.

Notes

  1. §39.6.11.prfilii sui — This genitive depends on mortis causa (a donation by reason of the son's death) or relates to donare (making a donation on behalf of the son). It refers to the paterfamilias's power to make a donation mortis causa concerning his son (filius familias).
  2. §39.6.11.prconstante matrimonio filii — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the present participle constante (from constare, to last/continue) and the noun matrimonio (from matrimonium, marriage) in the ablative, modified by the genitive filii. It is translated concessively with etiam ("even while the son's marriage continues").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.6.11.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.6.11.pr

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