[ULPIANUS libro primo ad Sabinum. ] §1.7.9.prEtiam caecus adoptare uel adoptari potest.
[ULPIAN in the first book on Sabinus.] Even a blind person can adopt or be adopted.
Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.7.9.pr
Capacity of a Blind Person to Adopt and Be Adopted
Summary
It clarifies that a blind person has the legal capacity both to adopt another person as a parent and to be adopted as a child.
Notes
- 1.7.9.pradoptare uel adoptari — The active infinitive adoptare (to adopt) and the passive infinitive adoptari (to be adopted) are coordinated by the alternative conjunction uel, both serving as complementary infinitives to the verb potest. This indicates that a blind person has the legal capacity to function as either the active party (the adopter) or the passive party (the adoptee) in an adoption.
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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.7.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.7.9.pr
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