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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §22.5.7.pr

Conditions for Admitting Slave Testimony

Passage 3260 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text stipulates the condition under which a slave's testimony is to be believed, restricting it to cases where no other evidence is available to uncover the truth.

[MODESTINUS libro tertio regularum. ] §22.5.7.prSerui responso tunc credendum est, cum alia probatio ad eruendam ueritatem non est.
[MODESTINUS, Rules, Book 3.] The testimony of a slave is to be believed only when there is no other proof to elicit the truth.

Notes

  1. §22.5.7.prcredendum est — An impersonal passive construction of obligation using the gerundive of the intransitive verb *credo*, which takes the dative object *responso* ('to the testimony'). It means 'credence must be given'.
  2. §22.5.7.prad eruendam ueritatem — A purpose construction consisting of the preposition *ad* and the gerundive in the accusative, literally 'for the truth to be elicited', meaning 'to elicit the truth'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §22.5.7.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:22.5.7.pr

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