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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.18.2.pr

Power of a Governor to Adopt and Emancipate Before Himself

Passage 204 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Asserts that a governor has the power to perform legal acts of personal status—such as adoption, emancipation of a son, and manumission of a slave—before himself as the magistrate.

[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo sexto ad Sabinum. ] §1.18.2.prPraeses apud se adoptare potest, quemadmodum et emancipare filium et manumittere seruum potest.
[ULPIAN, from the twenty-sixth book On Sabinus.] A governor can adopt before himself, just as he can also emancipate a son and manumit a slave.

Notes

  1. §1.18.2.prapud se — Literally "before himself." Under Roman law, acts altering family or legal status (such as adoption, emancipation, or manumission) normally required the presence of a magistrate with jurisdiction. As the holder of supreme jurisdiction in his province, the governor (praeses) is permitted to perform these solemn acts with respect to himself within his own court.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.18.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.18.2.pr

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