This article is a contribution to show the evolution of the legal regulation of donations
in favor of concubine in the legislation of Justinian. Contains an overview of all the
fragments of Justinian’s Digest regarding donations in favor of concubine made by legal
acts inter vivos and mortis causa. Fromthe analysis carried out on the particular fragments
of Digest results that apart from indicating the possibility of their making they do not
include any mention of restrictions on their property values, and none of the fragments
contained in Digest refers neither to testamentary inheritance, nor intestate inheritance
by a concubine after the deceased partner. Approved in Digest legal solutions show
that Justinian did not intend to carry on a restrictive policy towards concubinage, that
characterized especially the legislation of Constantine the Great, but treated it positively
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