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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.6.4.pr

Gifts Mortis Causa in View of Dangerous Travel

Passage 6254 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Gaius continues the list from the preceding text, adding the situation of being about to travel through dangerous places as a valid reason for a donation mortis causa.

[GAIUS libro primo rerum cottidianarum siue aureorum. ] §39.6.4.praut per insidiosa loca iturus
[GAIUS, from the first book of Everyday Matters, or Golden Words.] or because one is about to travel through dangerous places.

Notes

  1. §39.6.4.priturus — Future active participle, nominative singular masculine, indicating the intention or imminent action of the donor (the implied subject of donare in D. 39.6.3.pr). Syntactically, it functions as an extension of the reasons (causa) in the preceding text, or expresses a conditional circumstance ('if one is about to travel').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.6.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.6.4.pr

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