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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §5.1.51.pr

Place of Performance for Trusts and Agreed Jurisdiction

Passage 932 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A rule stating that the objection is unavailable once performance has begun, even if the heir is domiciled in a province, and that if the beneficiary consents to performance in another location, it must be performed at that agreed location.

[MARCIANUS libro octauo institutionum. ] §5.1.51.prquamuis ad eum hereditas fuerit deuoluta qui domicilium in prouincia habet.
[MARCIANUS libro octauo institutionum.] even though the inheritance has devolved upon one who has their domicile in a province.
sed et diui Seuerus et Antoninus rescripserunt, si consenserit fideicommissarius alio loco dare, necesse habere secundum consensum dare ubi consenserit.
But also the divine Severus and Antoninus replied by rescript that, if the beneficiary of the fideicommissum consented to the performance being made in another place, there is a necessity to perform it in accordance with the consent, in the place where they consented.

Notes

  1. 5.1.51.prquamuis ad eum — This concessive clause, employing the subjunctive perfect fuerit deuoluta, is grammatically and contextually connected to the end of the preceding passage by Ulpian (5.1.50.2, "they cannot use this objection"), serving to qualify it despite being excerpted from a different jurist (Marcianus).
  2. 5.1.51.prsi consenserit fideicommissarius alio loco dare — Although dare is an active infinitive ('to give'), its logical subject is the heir who owes the performance, not the beneficiary (fideicommissarius). Thus, the clause means 'if the beneficiary consented that [the heir] perform in another place'.
  3. 5.1.51.prnecesse habere — Part of the accusative and infinitive construction (indirect speech) dependent on rescripserunt, with the subject accusative heredem ('the heir') omitted as understood from the context.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §5.1.51.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.1.51.pr

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