- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
Defines "capitis minutio" (diminution of status) as a change of legal status.
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Capitis minutio1 est status permutatio.2
Capitis minutio is a change of status.
- 4.5.1.prCapitis minutio
The genitive capitis (from caput, literally "head", here referring to legal personality or status) combined with minutio (diminution) denotes a change in a person's legal standing (also known as capitis deminutio).
- 4.5.1.prstatus permutatio
A change or exchange (permutatio) of legal standing (status). It functions as the predicate nominative, indicating a shift from one legal category to another, which is not restricted to degradation.
