[ULPIANUS libro trigensimo secundo ad Sabinum. ] §39.6.2.prIulianus libro septimo decimo digestorum tres esse species mortis causa donationum ait, unam, cum quis nullo praesentis periculi metu conterritus, sed sola cogitatione mortalitatis donat. aliam esse speciem mortis causa donationum ait, cum quis imminente periculo commotus ita donat, ut statim fiat accipientis. tertium genus esse donationis ait, si quis periculo motus non sic det, ut statim faciat accipientis, sed tunc demum, cum mors fuerit insecuta.
[ULPIANUS, from the thirty-second book on Sabinus.] Iulianus, in the seventeenth book of his Digests, says that there are three types of donations mortis causa: one, when someone, not terrified by any fear of present danger, but solely by the contemplation of mortality, makes a donation; another type of donation mortis causa, he says, is when someone, moved by an imminent danger, donates in such a way that it immediately becomes the property of the recipient; the third type of donation, he says, is if someone, moved by danger, does not give in such a way as to make it immediately the property of the recipient, but only then when death has followed.