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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.7.12.pr

Adoption as the Only Way an Emancipated Person Returns to Power

Passage 114 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It rules that a person who has been released from paternal power cannot properly return under power except by means of adoption.

[ULPIANUS libro quarto decimo ad Sabinum. ] §1.7.12.prQui liberatus est patria potestate, is postea in potestatem honeste reuerti non potest nisi adoptione.
[ULPIANUS in the fourteenth book on Sabinus.] He who has been released from paternal power cannot afterwards properly return under power except by adoption.

Notes

  1. §1.7.12.prpatria potestate — This is an ablative of separation governed by the passive perfect participle `liberatus est` (has been released), meaning "from paternal power."
  2. §1.7.12.prhoneste — An adverb used here to mean "properly" or "by lawful means," rather than through illicit or dishonorable methods.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.7.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.7.12.pr

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