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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §11.8.2.pr

Prohibition of Burying Pregnant Women Before Cesarean Delivery

Passage 1852 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section outlines the royal law forbidding the burial of a deceased pregnant woman before her unborn child is cut out, noting the severity of violating this rule.

[MARCELLUS libro uicensimo octauo digestorum. ] §11.8.2.prNegat lex regia mulierem, quae praegnas mortua sit, humari, antequam partus ei excidatur: qui contra fecerit, spem animantis cum grauida peremisse uidetur.
[MARCELLUS, Digests, book 28] The royal law forbids that a woman who has died pregnant be buried before her child is cut out from her; whoever acts to the contrary is deemed to have destroyed the hope of a living being along with the pregnant woman.

Notes

  1. §11.8.2.prnegat ... humari — The verb negat (denies, says that ... not) takes the accusative with infinitive (mulierem ... humari) and functions here in a prohibitive sense, meaning 'forbids that... be buried'.
  2. §11.8.2.prei — Dative of separation (dativus separationis). It is used with the passive verb excidatur (to be cut out) to indicate the removal of the child from her body.
  3. §11.8.2.prperemisse uidetur — Personal construction of uidetur with the nominative and infinitive (nominativus cum infinitivo). The entire relative clause qui contra fecerit (with its antecedent omitted) acts as the grammatical subject of uidetur, meaning 'is deemed to have destroyed'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §11.8.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:11.8.2.pr

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