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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.6.9.pr

Capacity to Acquire Mortis Causa and Receive Legacies

Passage 6259 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It stipulates that the capacity to acquire mortis causa belongs to all those who also have the capacity to receive legacies.

[PAULUS libro tertio ad Sabinum. ] §39.6.9.prOmnibus mortis causa capere permittitur, qui scilicet et legata accipere possunt.
[PAULUS, from the third book on Sabinus.] All persons are permitted to acquire mortis causa who, of course, are also able to receive legacies.

Notes

  1. §39.6.9.prqui — The relative pronoun qui (nominative masculine plural) has the substantively used adjective Omnibus (dative plural) in the main clause as its antecedent. Its gender and number (masculine plural) clarify that Omnibus refers to 'all persons.'
  2. §39.6.9.prcapere permittitur — The verb permittitur is used as an impersonal passive (or taking the infinitive capere as its subject) with the dative complement Omnibus, meaning 'it is permitted to all to acquire.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.6.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.6.9.pr

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