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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §22.5.11.pr

Competence of Unsummoned Persons to Testify

Passage 3264 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Concerning the competency of witnesses, it states that even a witness who has not been formally summoned is recognized as a witness to establish the credibility of the facts.

[IDEM libro trigesimo tertio ad Sabinum. ] §22.5.11.prAd fidem rei gestae faciendam etiam non rogatus testis intellegitur.
[THE SAME, On Sabinus, Book 33.] To establish the credibility of what was done, even a witness who has not been requested is understood to be a witness.

Notes

  1. §22.5.11.prAd fidem rei gestae faciendam — A purpose construction consisting of the preposition ad with the accusative noun fidem and the agreeing gerundive faciendam. The phrase fidem facere means 'to produce credibility' or 'to establish proof'. Rei gestae is the genitive of res gesta ('what was done', 'fact') modifying fidem.
  2. §22.5.11.prnon rogatus — The perfect passive participle of rogare ('to ask', 'to summon') negated by non, agreeing in gender, number, and case with the subject testis. It functions here adverbially to mean 'even if not requested' or 'without being summoned'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §22.5.11.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:22.5.11.pr

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