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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §22.5.15.pr-22.5.15.1

Witness Eligibility of Extortioners and Hermaphrodites

Passage 3268 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus states that a person condemned for extortion cannot act as a witness to a will or give testimony, and that whether a hermaphrodite can be employed for a will depends on the quality of their dominant sex.

[PAULUS libro tertio sententiarum. ] §22.5.15.prRepetundarum damnatus nec ad testamen tum nec ad testimonium adhiberi potest.
[PAULUS, in his third book of Opinions.] A person condemned for extortion can be employed neither for a will nor for testimony.
§22.5.15.1Hermaphroditus an ad testamentum adhiberi possit, qualitas sexus incalescentis ostendit.
Whether a hermaphrodite can be employed for a will is shown by the quality of the prevailing sex.

Notes

  1. 22.5.15.prRepetundarum — The genitive of the adjective repetundae (things to be recovered, with pecuniarum omitted), functioning as the genitive of the charge with damnatus (condemned). It refers to the crime of extortion or recovering illicit gains committed by provincial officials.
  2. 22.5.15.1incalescentis — The genitive of the present participle of incalesco (to grow warm, become active). Here it is used as an adjective describing the sex that physically manifests itself more dominantly or actively (e.g., during development) in a hermaphrodite.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §22.5.15.pr-22.5.15.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:22.5.15.pr-22.5.15.1

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