- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-22
Explains the fundamental principle that adoption can only take place between persons where a natural parent-child relationship is also possible.
[IAUOLENUS libro sexto ex Cassio.]
[JAVOLENUS in the sixth book from Cassius.]
Adoptio enim in his personis locum habet, in quibus etiam natura potest habere.1
For adoption takes place in the case of those persons in whose case nature also can do so.
- 1.7.16.prnatura potest habere
Following the verb phrase locum habet in the preceding main clause, locum is understood to be omitted after habere (i.e., natura [locum] habere potest). It means 'nature also can take place (or establish the relationship),' representing the Roman law principle that 'adoption imitates nature' (adoptio naturam imitatur), meaning adoption is only permitted in relationships that could naturally exist (e.g., regarding the age difference between adopter and adopted).