Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.201.pr

Requirement of a Flawless Origin for Testamentary Validity

Passage 9261 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text states the principle that all legal effects originating from a testament only secure validity in their final outcome if their initiation was free from defect.

[IDEM libro decimo epistularum. ] §50.17.201.prOmnia, quae ex testamento proficiscuntur, ita statum euentus capiunt, si initium quoque sine uitio ceperint.

[THE SAME, in his tenth book of Epistles.] All things which proceed from a testament only acquire an established status in their outcome if their beginning also was free from defect.

Notes

50.17.201.prita ... si — The adverb ita correlates with the subsequent conditional clause introduced by si, restricting the condition to mean "only if" or "only under the condition that."
50.17.201.prstatum euentus — The word euentus is the genitive singular of the fourth-declension noun euentus (outcome, result), modifying statum (standing, established state, validity). It refers to the final acquisition of definitive legal validity for the provisions of a testament.
50.17.201.prceperint — This is the third-person plural future perfect indicative (or perfect subjunctive) of capio (to take, begin). It indicates that the action in the conditional clause (taking a beginning) must be completed prior to the action of the main clause in the present tense (capiunt).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.201.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.201.pr

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