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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §23.1.12.pr-23.1.12.1

Presumed Consent of a Daughter and Grounds for Dissent

Passage 3300 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that a daughter who does not oppose her father's will is presumed to consent to the betrothal, and that she is granted the right to dissent only if her father selects an unworthy or shameful suitor.

[ULPIANUS libro singulari de sponsalibus. ] §23.1.12.prsed quae patris uoluntati non repugnat, consentire intellegitur.
[ULPIANUS, in the single book on Betrothals.] But she who does not oppose her father's will is understood to consent.
§23.1.12.1Tunc autem solum dissentiendi a patre licentia filiae conceditur, si indignum moribus uel turpem sponsum ei pater eligat.
However, permission to dissent from her father is granted to a daughter only when the father chooses for her a betrothed who is unworthy in character or shameful.

Notes

  1. §23.1.12.prquae — The antecedent of the relative pronoun (the feminine singular demonstrative ea or noun filia) is omitted, serving as the subject of the clause. The following verb repugnat governs the dative (patris uoluntati).
  2. §23.1.12.1dissentiendi — The genitive of the gerund of the intransitive verb dissentio (to differ, dissent), modifying the noun licentia ("permission to dissent"). The prepositional phrase a patre depends on this gerund.
  3. §23.1.12.1indignum moribus — The word moribus (the ablative plural of mos, meaning "character" or "morals") functions as an ablative of specification (or respect) modifying the adjective indignum ("unworthy in respect of character").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §23.1.12.pr-23.1.12.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:23.1.12.pr-23.1.12.1

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