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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §12.2.41.pr

Validity of Release from Oath for Absent Persons and by Letter

Passage 1938 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius presents Labeo's opinion that a release from an oath can be validly granted even to an absent and unaware person, as well as by letter.

[POMPONIUS libro singulari regularum. ] §12.2.41.prLabeo etiam absenti et ignoranti iurisiurandi gratiam fieri posse respondit: sed et per epistulam gratia iurisiurandi fieri potest.
[POMPONIUS, Single Book of Rules.] Labeo answered that a release from an oath can be granted even to someone who is absent and unaware; but a release from an oath can also be granted by letter.

Notes

  1. §12.2.41.priurisiurandi gratiam fieri — The expression 'gratiam facere' (passive: 'gratiam fieri'), when combined with a genitive (here 'iurisiurandi'), is a legal idiom meaning 'to grant a release from' (or 'a release from... is granted').
  2. §12.2.41.prabsenti et ignoranti — Dative singular forms of the adjectives 'absens' and 'ignorans', used substantively. They function as the dative of advantage/disadvantage with 'fieri', meaning 'to one who is absent and unaware (of the release)'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §12.2.41.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:12.2.41.pr

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