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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.5.20.pr

Retention of Status and Power by the Insane

Passage 84 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that a person who has become insane is deemed to retain their previous status, dignity, magistracy, and power, just as they retain the ownership of their property.

[ULPIANUS libro trigensimo octauo ad Sabinum. ] §1.5.20.prQui furere coepit, et statum et dignitatem in qua fuit et magistratum et potestatem uidetur retinere, sicut rei suae dominium retinet.
[ULPIAN, in the thirty-eighth book on Sabinus.] He who has begun to be insane is deemed to retain both the status and the dignity in which he was, and the magistracy and the power, just as he retains the ownership of his property.

Notes

  1. §1.5.20.pruidetur retinere — A personal construction of uidetur with the infinitive retinere, taking the subject of the sentence (qui furere coepit) as its own subject ('is deemed to retain'), rather than an impersonal construction ('it seems that...').
  2. §1.5.20.prin qua fuit — The relative pronoun qua is feminine singular ablative, referring back to the immediate antecedent dignitatem (feminine singular), meaning 'in which (dignity) he was.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.5.20.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.5.20.pr

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