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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §23.2.2.pr

Requirement of Consent of the Couple and Their Paterfamilias

Passage 3308 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that for a marriage to be legally valid, the consent of all parties involved—both the marrying couple and those who hold power over them—is required.

[PAULUS libro trigesimo quinto ad edictum. ] §23.2.2.prNuptiae consistere non possunt nisi consentiant omnes, id est qui coeunt quorumque in potestate sunt.
[Paulus in the thirty-fifth book on the Edict.] Marriage cannot exist unless all consent, that is, those who come together and those in whose power they are.

Notes

  1. 23.2.2.prquorumque in potestate sunt — The antecedent of the relative pronoun quorum is an omitted demonstrative pronoun in the nominative plural (such as ei, referring to the patres familias), while the subject of sunt is the marrying couple (qui coeunt). The phrase means 'and those in whose power (potestas) they are,' referring to the holders of paternal authority.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §23.2.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:23.2.2.pr

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