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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §11.1.19.pr

Effect of a Son's Silence When Interrogated for His Father

Passage 1765 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that if a son acting for his father remains silent when interrogated, the legal outcome is the same as if no interrogation had taken place.

[PAPINIANUS libro octauo quaestionum. ] §11.1.19.prSi filius, cum pro patre suo ageret, taceat interrogatus, omnia perinde obseruanda erunt, ac si non esset interrogatus.
[PAPINIANUS, from the eighth book of Questions.] If a son, while acting on behalf of his father, should remain silent when interrogated, all things shall be observed in the same manner as if he had not been interrogated.

Notes

  1. §11.1.19.prperinde ... ac si — A comparative adverbial phrase meaning "just as if" or "in the same manner as if." It is followed by the pluperfect subjunctive esset interrogatus to express a condition contrary to past fact.
  2. §11.1.19.printerrogatus — A perfect participle in the nominative singular masculine, agreeing with the subject filius, functioning adverbially to express time or condition ("when interrogated").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §11.1.19.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:11.1.19.pr

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