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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.6.3.pr

Grounds and Perils Justifying Donations Mortis Causa

Passage 6253 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus states that donations mortis causa are permitted not only due to ill health, but also due to the danger of impending death from enemies, robbers, powerful individuals, or embarking on a voyage.

[PAULUS libro septimo ad Sabinum. ] §39.6.3.prMortis causa donare licet non tantum infirmae ualetudinis causa, sed periculi etiam propinquae mortis uel ab hoste uel a praedonibus uel ab hominis potentis crudelitate aut odio aut nauigationis ineundae:
[PAULUS, from the seventh book on Sabinus.] It is permitted to make a donation mortis causa not only on account of ill health, but also on account of the danger of an impending death, whether from an enemy, or from robbers, or from the cruelty or hatred of a powerful man, or of embarking on a voyage.

Notes

  1. §39.6.3.prnauigationis ineundae — A gerundive construction where the noun 'nauigatio' and the gerundive 'ineunda' agree in the genitive case, meaning 'embarking on a voyage'. This genitive functions as an objective genitive dependent on 'periculi' (the danger of embarking on a voyage). Alternatively, it could be understood as depending on an omitted 'causa' (on account of embarking on a voyage), but the translation treats it as parallel to the sources of danger governed by 'periculi'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.6.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.6.3.pr

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