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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.9.6.pr-1.9.6.1

Adoption and Retention of Status as a Senator's Child

Passage 165 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that an adopted child of a senator retains the status of a senator's son as long as he remains in the family, and that a senator's son given in adoption to someone of lower dignity does not lose his status.

[PAULUS libro secundo ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §1.9.6.prSenatoris filius est et is, quem in adoptionem accepit, quamdiu tamen in familia eius manet: emancipatus uero nomen filii emancipatione amittit.
[PAULUS, On the Lex Julia et Papia, book 2] He also whom a senator has received in adoption is the son of a senator, so long, however, as he remains in his family; but one who has been emancipated loses the name of a son by emancipation.
§1.9.6.1A senatore in adoptionem filius datus ei qui inferioris dignitatis est, quasi senatoris filius uidetur, quia non amittitur senatoria dignitas adoptione inferioris dignitatis, non magis quam ut consularis desinat esse.
A son given in adoption by a senator to one who is of an inferior dignity is regarded as if he were the son of a senator; because the senatorial dignity is not lost by adoption by one of an inferior dignity, any more than a consular person ceases to be such.

Notes

  1. 1.9.6.1inferioris dignitatis — The genitive inferioris dignitatis is a genitive of quality (genitivus qualitatis) describing the subject qui of the relative clause.
  2. 1.9.6.1non magis quam ut consularis desinat esse — The phrase non magis quam is a comparative idiom meaning "no more than," equivalent to "just as... not, so... not." The subsequent ut clause takes the subjunctive desinat (present subjunctive 3rd person singular of desino), expressing a hypothetical or resulting state, meaning "just as a consular person does not cease to be such."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.9.6.pr-1.9.6.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.9.6.pr-1.9.6.1

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