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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.6.6.pr

Imminent Peril of Death as Ground for Donations

Passage 6256 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that all the circumstances mentioned in the previous section, which prompt a donation mortis causa, indicate an imminent danger of death.

[PAULUS libro septimo ad Sabinum. ] §39.6.6.prhaec enim omnia instans periculum demonstrant.
[PAULUS, from the seventh book on Sabinus.] For all these things show imminent danger.

Notes

  1. §39.6.6.prhaec omnia — Neuter plural nominative, referring back to the various circumstances mentioned by Ulpian in D.39.6.5.pr under which a donation mortis causa is made (such as weakness from illness, old age, setting out for war, a voyage, or a journey).
  2. §39.6.6.prinstans periculum — The present active participle of the verb instare (to be imminent) is used attributively to modify the accusative noun periculum (danger).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.6.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.6.6.pr

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