- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.18.2.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-25
Asserts that a governor has the power to perform legal acts of personal status—such as adoption, emancipation of a son, and manumission of a slave—before himself as the magistrate.
[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo sexto ad Sabinum.]
[ULPIAN, from the twenty-sixth book On Sabinus.]
Praeses apud se1 adoptare potest, quemadmodum et emancipare filium et manumittere seruum potest.
A governor can adopt before himself, just as he can also emancipate a son and manumit a slave.
- 1.18.2.prapud se
Literally "before himself." Under Roman law, acts altering family or legal status (such as adoption, emancipation, or manumission) normally required the presence of a magistrate with jurisdiction. As the holder of supreme jurisdiction in his province, the governor (praeses) is permitted to perform these solemn acts with respect to himself within his own court.