by Arneb » Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:28 pm
Drat, missed 529. My father once told me that for him it was the beginning of the Middle Ages because, coincidentally, it was the year when
a) Benedict of Nursia founded the Monte Cassino Monastery, developing his Benedictine rule and thus, the primary cultrual model of the Middle Ages, and
b) the Platonic Academy in Athens, the epitome of Classical scholarship, was closed forever by the Roman Emperor Justinian.
If ever there was a significant coincidence in historic dates, here it is.
530? OK, so §530 BGB, a paragraph in German Civil Law saying that someone who gave a beneficience can revoke it if the beneficiary is guilty of "gross ingratitude":
§ 530 Widerruf der Schenkung
(1) Eine Schenkung kann widerrufen werden, wenn sich der Beschenkte durch eine schwere Verfehlung gegen den Schenker oder einen nahen Angehörigen des Schenkers groben Undanks schuldig macht.
(2) Dem Erben des Schenkers steht das Recht des Widerrufs nur zu, wenn der Beschenkte vorsätzlich und widerrechtlich den Schenker getötet oder am Widerruf gehindert hat.
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