Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- ROMAN LAW
- ROMAN LAW AND SCOTS LAW
- 8 Roman and Scots Law – the Conditiones si sine Liberis Decesserit
- 9 Tge Interpretation of C 8.55.8
- 10 Cinus and Pierre de Belleperche
- 11 Roman Law in a Nineteenth-century Scottish Case: Gowans v Christie
- 12 Servitudes. Scots Law and Roman Law
- 13 Roman Quasi-delicts and Scots Law
- 14 Risk in Sale – From Roman to Scots Law
- SCOTTISH LEGAL HISTORY
- ROMAN LAW INFLUENCE
- GENERAL INTEREST
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Index
9 - Tge Interpretation of C 8.55.8
from ROMAN LAW AND SCOTS LAW
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- ROMAN LAW
- ROMAN LAW AND SCOTS LAW
- 8 Roman and Scots Law – the Conditiones si sine Liberis Decesserit
- 9 Tge Interpretation of C 8.55.8
- 10 Cinus and Pierre de Belleperche
- 11 Roman Law in a Nineteenth-century Scottish Case: Gowans v Christie
- 12 Servitudes. Scots Law and Roman Law
- 13 Roman Quasi-delicts and Scots Law
- 14 Risk in Sale – From Roman to Scots Law
- SCOTTISH LEGAL HISTORY
- ROMAN LAW INFLUENCE
- GENERAL INTEREST
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Index
Summary
C 8. 55. 8, which reproduces CTh 8.13. 3, is not an entirely straightforward text:
(Impp. Constantius et Constants. A.A. ad Orfitum P.U.): Si umquam libertis patronus filias non Habens bona omnia vel partem aliquam facultatum fuerit donatione largitus et postea susceperit liberos, totum quidquid largitus fuerit revertitur in eiusdem donatoris arbitrio ac dicione mansurum. D. V. k. April. Arbitione et Lolliano conss.
(ad 355)It provides that where a patron without filii has made a gift of all or part of his goods to his freedmen and subsequently has children the gift reverts to him and remains at his disposal. But one may ask, for example, whether the masculine filios is significant or whether the masculine includes the feminine? Whether a single thing could be “part of his goods”? Whether ownership reverts automatically or whether the text means that the gift is freely revocable? Nevertheless, in one respect, at least, it seems quite simple. There can be little doubt that its provisions were restricted to gifts between patrons and freedmen and since the discovery of the Vatican Fragments, Vat Fragm 272, a fuller version of C 8.55.1, has been regarded as establishing this restriction for the Roman law of the time of its promulgation and for the law of Justinian.
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- Roman Law, Scots Law and Legal HistorySelected Essays, pp. 107 - 111Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2007