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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.6.16.pr

Revocation of Mortis Causa Gifts Pending Donor's Recovery

Passage 6266 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that a donation mortis causa can be revoked even while it remains undecided whether the donor will recover.

[IDEM libro uicensimo nono digestorum. ] §39.6.16.prMortis causa donatio etiam dum pendet, an conualescere possit donator, reuocari potest.
[THE SAME, from the twenty-ninth book of the Digests.] A donation mortis causa can be revoked even while it is still uncertain whether the donor can recover.

Notes

  1. §39.6.16.prpendet, an conualescere possit donator — The intransitive verb `pendere` (to hang, to be undecided) takes an indirect question introduced by the conjunction `an` with the subjunctive `possit`, meaning "it remains undecided whether the donor can recover."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.6.16.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.6.16.pr

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