| 单词 | legacy by damnation |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslegacy by damnation 4. Roman Law. A form of declaring a legacy in which the heir is obliged by the testator to pay money or deliver property to a legatee. Chiefly in legacy by damnation. rare (chiefly in translations or discussions of the Roman jurist Gaius). ΚΠ 1870 J. T. Abdy & B. Walker tr. Gaius Commentaries ii. 135 The most advantageous form is a legacy by damnation [L. damnationem]: by which kind even the property of another can be bequeathed. 1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 528 A legacy by damnation..was one in which the testator imposed an obligation on his heir to give to the legatee the thing bequeathed,..and which afforded the latter a personal claim against the heir, but no real right in the object of bequest. 2016 A. Jördens in P. J. Du Plessis et al. Oxf. Handbk. Rom. Law & Society vii. xlii. 544 A legacy by damnation..is merely obligatory, and could not of course give such a position. < as lemmas |
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