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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §2.4.22.pr-2.4.22.1

Summons of Impubes Girls and Release Conditions

Passage 286 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage regulates the prohibition of summoning impuberal girls under another's power and specifies two conditions under which a summoned person must be released.

[GAIUS libro primo ad legem duodecim tabularum. ] §2.4.22.prNeque impuberes puellas, quae alieno iuri subiectae essent, in ius uocare permissum est. §2.4.22.1Qui in ius uocatus est, duobus casibus dimittendus est: si quis eius personam defendet, et si, dum in ius uenitur, de re transactum fuerit.
[GAIUS, in the first book on the Law of the Twelve Tables.]\n\nNor is it permitted to summon to court impuberal girls who are subject to another's power.\n\nHe who has been summoned to court must be released in two cases: if someone defends his person, and if, while coming to court, a settlement of the matter has been reached.

Notes

  1. §2.4.22.prquae alieno iuri subiectae essent — The subjunctive imperfect essent indicates a relative clause of characteristic defining the class of individuals, or functions as a subordinate clause in indirect speech context.
  2. §2.4.22.1dum in ius uenitur — uenitur is the impersonal passive of the intransitive verb uenire (to come), literally meaning 'while it is being come to court', translated as 'while going to court'.
  3. §2.4.22.1de re transactum fuerit — transactum fuerit is the impersonal passive future perfect of transigere (to settle), which, with de re (concerning the matter), means 'if a settlement has been reached concerning the matter'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §2.4.22.pr-2.4.22.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.4.22.pr-2.4.22.1

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