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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.5.9.pr

General Principle of Women's Disadvantaged Legal Status

Passage 73 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Papinian states the general rule that in many areas of Roman law the legal condition of women is inferior or disadvantaged compared to that of men.

[IDEM libro trigensimo primo quaestionum. ] §1.5.9.prIn multis iuris nostri articulis deterior est condicio feminarum quam masculorum.
[THE SAME, in the thirty-first book of Questions] In many points of our law, the condition of women is worse than that of men.

Notes

  1. §1.5.9.prarticulis — The noun articulus (originally meaning a "joint" or "knuckle") is used here metaphorically to refer to "points," "aspects," or "provisions" of the law.
  2. §1.5.9.prmasculorum — The genitive masculorum following the conjunction of comparison quam is parallel to the genitive feminarum in the main clause, with the noun condicio being omitted.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.5.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.5.9.pr

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