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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.6.10.pr

Maintenance Judgments and the Question of Actual Paternity

Passage 101 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that even if a judge pronounces that maintenance should be provided, the actual truth of whether one is a son must still be investigated, as a lawsuit for maintenance does not prejudice the determination of the truth.

[ULPIANUS libro quarto ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §1.6.10.prSi iudex nutriri uel ali oportere pronuntiauerit, dicendum est de ueritate quaerendum, filius sit an non: neque enim alimentorum causa ueritati facit praeiudicium.
[ULPIANUS in the fourth book on the lex Iulia et Papia.] If a judge has pronounced that someone ought to be nourished or maintained, it must be said that inquiry must be made into the truth, whether he is a son or not; for a lawsuit for maintenance does not create a prejudice against the truth.

Notes

  1. §1.6.10.pralimentorum causa — causa is not the prepositional-like ablative meaning 'for the sake of' (which would govern the genitive), but the nominative singular of the noun causa ('lawsuit', 'case'), with alimentorum as a defining genitive. It means 'a lawsuit for maintenance' and functions as the subject of the verb facit.
  2. §1.6.10.prdicendum est de ueritate quaerendum — An impersonal construction employing two gerundives (dicendum, quaerendum). The phrase de ueritate quaerendum [esse] ('that inquiry must be made into the truth') depends as an accusative with infinitive clause (with esse omitted) on the main clause dicendum est ('it must be said').

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