tripertitum

Updated: May 16, 2025

Several, however, of its most important features were annexed by positive enactments, and it is out of regard to this threefold derivation from the Prætorian Edict, from the Civil Law, and from the Imperial Constitutions, that Justinian speaks of the Law of Wills in his own day as Jus Tripertitum. The new Testament thus described is the one generally known as the Roman Will.

Sir Henry Sumner Maine - Ancient Law: Its Connection to the History of Early Society