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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.3.23.pr

Prohibition of Altering Settled Interpretations

Passage 42 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

States the interpretive principle that legal rules or matters that have always had a settled and clear interpretation should not be altered.

[PAULUS libro quarto ad Plautium. ] §1.3.23.prMinime sunt mutanda, quae interpretationem certam semper habuerunt.
[PAULUS, On Plautius, Book 4] Things which have always had a settled interpretation are least of all to be altered.

Notes

  1. §1.3.23.prMinime sunt mutanda — A combination of the passive periphrastic conjugation (sunt mutanda, expressing necessity or obligation) and the superlative adverb minime (literally "least of all"), expressing a strong recommendation or warning against alteration: "must by no means be altered."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.3.23.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.3.23.pr

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