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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §15.1.46.pr

Grant of Peculium Administration as General Permission

Passage 2305 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that a person who grants the administration of a peculium is deemed to have generally permitted what he would otherwise specifically permit.

[IDEM libro sexagensimo ad edictum. ] §15.1.46.prQui peculii administrationem concedit, uidetur permittere generaliter, quod et specialiter permissurus est.
[THE SAME in the sixtieth book on the edict.] He who grants the administration of a peculium is deemed to permit generally what he would also permit specifically.

Notes

  1. §15.1.46.pruidetur — A personal construction with the implied antecedent of `Qui` as its subject. Accompanied by the infinitive `permittere`, it expresses a legal determination or presumption, meaning "is deemed to" or "is regarded as."
  2. §15.1.46.prpermissurus est — An active future periphrastic conjugation consisting of the future participle `permissurus` and the copula `est`. It expresses a hypothetical likelihood or willingness on the part of the master/father, meaning "what he would (naturally) permit" individually if the specific occasion arose.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §15.1.46.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:15.1.46.pr

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