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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.3.9.pr

The Undoubted Power of the Senate to Make Law

Passage 28 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This fragment asserts that there is no doubt that the senate has the power to make law.

[ULPIANUS libro XVI ad edictum. ] §1.3.9.prNon ambigitur senatum ius facere posse.
[ULPIAN on the Edict, Book XVI] There is no doubt that the senate can make law.

Notes

  1. §1.3.9.prNon ambigitur senatum ius facere posse — The negative impersonal passive "non ambigitur" (it is not doubted / there is no doubt) takes the accusative with infinitive (AcI) clause "senatum ius facere posse" as its subject clause. Within this clause, "senatum" is the subject accusative of "posse", which in turn takes the complementary infinitive "ius facere" (to make law).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.3.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.3.9.pr

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