- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-22
Papinianus explains that when the power of an adoptive father ends, no trace of the former relationship remains, and even the social status acquired through adoption is lost.
[PAPINIANUS libro trigensimo sexto quaestionum.]
[PAPINIANUS in the thirty-sixth book of Questions.]
In omni fere iure finita patris adoptiui potestate1 nullum ex pristino2 retinetur uestigium: denique et patria dignitas quaesita per adoptionem finita ea3 deponitur.
In almost every branch of law, when the power of the adoptive father is ended, no trace of the former status is retained; and so, even the paternal status acquired through adoption is laid down when that power is ended.
- 1.7.13.prfinita patris adoptiui potestate
An ablative absolute construction consisting of the perfect passive participle finita (from finio, feminine ablative singular) and the noun potestate (from potestas, ablative singular), expressing time or condition ("when/if the power of the adoptive father is ended").
- 1.7.13.prpristino
The neuter ablative singular of the adjective pristinus, -a, -um ("former", "original"), used substantively to mean "the former state" or "the previous relationship". It functions as the object of the preposition ex ("from").
- 1.7.13.prfinita ea
An ablative absolute construction consisting of the participle finita and the demonstrative pronoun ea (feminine ablative singular of is). The pronoun ea refers back to the preceding feminine noun adoptionem ("adoption") or contextually to potestate ("power"), meaning "when it (the adoption / the power) is ended".