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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.133.pr

Inclusion of the Day of Death in Time Calculations

Passage 8947 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains the rule of legal interpretation that if something is specified to be done 'within the day of death', the day of death itself is included in the period.

[ULPIANUS libro quarto ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §50.16.133.prSi quis sic dixerit 'ut intra diem mortis eius aliquid fiat', ipse quoque dies, quo quis mortuus est, numeratur.
[ULPIANUS, from the fourth book on the Lex Iulia et Papia.] If anyone has spoken thus: 'that something be done within the day of his death', the very day on which anyone died is also counted.

Notes

  1. §50.16.133.prdixerit — A future perfect indicative (or perfect subjunctive) in the conditional clause, representing a prior hypothetical action upon which the general rule of the main verb `numeratur` (in the present tense) operates.
  2. §50.16.133.prquo — The ablative of the relative pronoun referring to the antecedent `dies`, functioning as an ablative of time (ablativus temporis).

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