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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §22.3.5.pr-22.3.5.1

Burden of Proof on Legal Incapacity and Emancipation

Passage 3223 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that the party asserting that their opponent is legally barred from a right, or the party denying the validity of an emancipation, bears the burden of proof.

[IDEM libro nono responsorum. ] §22.3.5.prAb ea parte, quae dicit aduersarium suum ab aliquo iure prohibitum esse specialiter lege uel constitutione, id probari oportere.
[THE SAME, in the ninth book of Responses.] It must be proved by that party who asserts that his adversary has been specially prohibited from some right by a law or a constitution.
Idem re-spondit, si qui §22.3.5.1negat emancipationem recte factam, probationem ipsum praestare debere.
The same writer replied that, if anyone denies that an emancipation was rightly performed, he himself must provide the proof.

Notes

  1. §22.3.5.prAb ea parte... id probari oportere — The accusative with infinitive clause 'id probari' serves as the subject of the impersonal verb 'oportere'. The prepositional phrase 'ab ea parte' designates the agent of the passive infinitive 'probari' (by whom it must be proved). The relative pronoun 'quae' refers back to 'ea parte'.
  2. §22.3.5.1probationem ipsum praestare debere — This is an accusative with infinitive clause dependent on the main verb 'respondit' in indirect speech. The accusative 'ipsum' (from the intensive pronoun 'ipse') is the subject accusative of 'debere', emphasizing that the person who denies ('qui' in the conditional clause) must himself provide the proof.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §22.3.5.pr-22.3.5.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:22.3.5.pr-22.3.5.1

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