- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-02
This text state that infamy is incurred by a woman who fraudulently obtains possession of estate property in the name of an unborn child by falsely claiming to be pregnant.
[ULPIANUS libro octauo ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS, in his Eighth Book on the Edict.]
Notatur quae per calumniam uentris nomine in possessionem missa est,1 dum se adseuerat praegnatem,2
She is marked with infamy who, by false pretences, has been put into possession in the name of the unborn child, while asserting that she is pregnant,
- 3.2.15.pruentris nomine in possessionem missa est
Meaning 'was put into possession in the name of the womb'. This refers to the Roman legal procedure 'missio in possessionem uentris nomine' (putting into possession on behalf of the unborn child), granted by the praetor to a pregnant widow to preserve the estate for the benefit of the future child.
- 3.2.15.prdum se adseuerat praegnatem
The conjunction dum, taking the present indicative adseuerat, denotes an action contemporaneous with the past event (missa est) or the pretext for it. se praegnatem constitutes an accusative with infinitive construction (with the copula esse omitted) acting as the direct object of adseuerat.