- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.4.44.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
It explains that not all acts of minors under twenty-five are void, but only those specific acts that are found after inquiry to have caused them disadvantage due to deception or their own imprudence.
[ULPIANUS libro quinto opinionum.]
[ULPIANUS, in the fifth book of Opinions.]
Non omnia, quae minores annis uiginti quinque gerunt, irrita sunt, sed ea tantum, quae causa cognita eiusmodi deprehensa sunt, uel1 ab aliis circumuenti uel sua facilitate decepti aut quod habuerunt amiserunt, aut quod adquirere emolumentum potuerunt omiserint,2 aut se oneri quod non suscipere licuit obligauerunt.
Not all things which those under twenty-five years of age do are void, but only those which, after due inquiry, are found to be of such a nature that they, either circumvented by others or deceived by their own easy-going nature, have either lost what they had, or lost the opportunity to acquire a benefit which they could have acquired, or bound themselves to a burden which they ought not to have undertaken.
- 4.4.44.preiusmodi deprehensa sunt, uel... uel...
The phrase eiusmodi (of such a kind) modifies deprehensa sunt (are found to be), and its specific details are explained by the subsequent participle phrases (circumventi, decepti) and verbs (amiserunt, etc.). Grammatically, the subject of deprehensa sunt is quae referring to the neuter plural ea (acts), but in the explanatory part, the subject shifts to the masculine plural "minors" (minores) by synesis (constructio ad sensum), so the participles and verbs are in the masculine plural and third-person plural.
- 4.4.44.promiserint
While the parallel verbs amiserunt and obligauerunt are in the perfect indicative, this verb alone takes the form of the perfect subjunctive (or future perfect). This is highly likely due to a scribal variant or confusion with omiserunt, but semantically it coordinates with the other two perfect verbs to express a past occurrence ("neglected/lost the opportunity").
Translated by Gemini 3.5 Flash (published 2026-07-12) · Revision history (1, latest 2026-09-22)
- 2026-09-22 AI review — source 1