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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.7.35.pr

Preservation of Senatorial Rank Despite Adoption

Passage 137 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that social status is not diminished by adoption, meaning a senator remains a senator even if adopted by a plebeian, and the same applies to a senator's son.

[IDEM libro primo responsorum. ] §1.7.35.prPer adoptionem dignitas non minuitur, sed augetur.
[THE SAME, Opinions, book 1.] By adoption status is not diminished, but increased.
unde senator etsi a plebeio adoptatus est, manet senator: similiter manet et senatoris filius.
Therefore, even if a senator is adopted by a plebeian, he remains a senator; likewise, the son of a senator also remains so.

Notes

  1. §1.7.35.pretsi — Concessive conjunction (even if / although). The verb in the subordinate clause is the perfect indicative 'adoptatus est', and its subject is the preceding noun 'senator'.
  2. §1.7.35.pret — Here, 'et' functions adverbially ('also', 'even') modifying the immediately following subject 'senatoris filius', rather than as a coordinating conjunction ('and').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.7.35.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.7.35.pr

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