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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.7.1.pr-1.7.1.1

The Definition of Adoption and Its Division into Adoption and Adrogation

Passage 103 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that adoption is a means of creating sons-in-power, and defines its division into two species: adoption proper (for those in-power) and adrogation (for those who are independent).

[MODESTINUS libro secundo regularum. ] §1.7.1.prFilios familias non solum natura, uerum et adoptiones faciunt.
[MODESTINUS in the second book of Rules.] Not only nature, but also adoptions make sons-in-power.
§1.7.1.1Quod adoptionis nomen est quidem generale, in duas autem species diuiditur, quarum altera adoptio similiter dicitur, altera adrogatio.
This term "adoption" is indeed general, but it is divided into two species, of which one is likewise called adoption, and the other adrogation.
adoptantur filii familias, adrogantur qui sui iuris sunt.
Sons-in-power are adopted; those who are sui iuris are adrogated.

Notes

  1. §1.7.1.prFilios familias — filios familias is the accusative plural of filius familias (a son under paternal power). familias is an archaic genitive singular form and remains unchanged in the plural.
  2. §1.7.1.1Quod adoptionis nomen — Quod is a relative pronoun at the beginning of the sentence (relative connection), functioning like a demonstrative pronoun to connect with the preceding sentence. adoptionis is a genitive of definition (or appositive genitive) modifying nomen, meaning "the name of adoption."
  3. §1.7.1.1similiter — Here similiter (likewise) indicates that, "likewise" as the generic name (adoptionis nomen), the same word (adoptio) is also used for one of its specific subcategories.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.7.1.pr-1.7.1.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.7.1.pr-1.7.1.1

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