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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.6.15.pr

Donations Mortis Causa by Filial Soldiers and Testamentary Freedom

Passage 6265 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Citing the opinions of Marcellus and Paulus, this section discusses how the limits on donations mortis causa were relaxed or remitted following the freedom of soldiers who are sons-in-power to make wills, rendering such donations revocable after the example of legacies.

[IDEM libro uicensimo septimo digestorum. ] §39.6.15.prMARCELLUS notat: cum testamento relinquendi, cui uelint, adepti sint filii familias milites liberam facultatem, credi potest ea etiam remissa, quae donationes mortis causa fieri prohibent.
[THE SAME, from the twenty-seventh book of the Digests.] Marcellus notes: since soldiers who are sons-in-power have acquired the free capacity of leaving by will to whomsoever they wish, it can be believed that those things are also remitted which prohibit donations mortis causa from being made.
PAULUS notat: hoc et constitutum est et ad exemplum legatorum mortis causa donationes reuocatae sunt.
Paulus notes: this has both been established and, after the example of legacies, donations mortis causa have been made revocable.

Notes

  1. §39.6.15.prtestamento relinquendi — relinquendi is the genitive of the gerund, modifying facultatem to form the meaning "the capacity of leaving by will."
  2. §39.6.15.prea etiam remissa — The passive infinitive esse is omitted after remissa. This clause acts as the subject of the impersonal expression credi potest. The neuter plural pronoun ea is the antecedent of the following relative clause quae ... prohibent.
  3. §39.6.15.prreuocatae sunt — This refers to the legal development where donations mortis causa, like legacies (legata) which are freely revocable during the testator's lifetime, came to be recognized as revocable at the donor's will.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.6.15.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.6.15.pr

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