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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.5.8.pr

Protection of Child Status Against Defective Documents

Passage 72 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It records that Emperor Titus Antoninus issued a rescript ruling that the legal status of children is not harmed by any defects in the drafting of a document.

[PAPINIANUS libro tertio quaestionum. ] §1.5.8.prImperator Titus Antoninus rescripsit non laedi statum liberorum ob tenorem instrumenti male concepti.
[PAPINIANUS, in the third book of Questions]\n\nThe Emperor Titus Antoninus wrote in a rescript that the status of children is not prejudiced by reason of the wording of an improperly drawn document.

Notes

  1. 1.5.8.prnon laedi statum — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction functioning as the object of `rescripsit` ('wrote in a rescript'). Here, `statum` ('status') is the subject accusative of the passive infinitive `laedi` ('to be prejudiced/harmed').
  2. 1.5.8.prmale concepti — The perfect passive participle `concepti` ('drawn up'), qualifying `instrumenti` ('of the document'), modified by the adverb `male` ('improperly'). It refers to a legal instrument that has been drafted with errors in form or wording.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.5.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.5.8.pr

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