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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §23.3.2.pr

Public Interest in Preserving Dowries for Marriage

Passage 3376 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that it is in the interest of the state for women to have their dowries preserved safely so that they can marry.

[IDEM libro sexagesimo ad edictum. ] §23.3.2.prRei publicae interest mulieres dotes saluas habere, propter quas nubere possunt.
[THE SAME in the sixtieth book on the Edict.] It is in the interest of the state that women should have their dowries safe, on account of which they are able to marry.

Notes

  1. §23.3.2.prrei publicae interest — The impersonal verb interest takes a genitive of the person or entity concerned (rei publicae), meaning 'it is in the interest of the state'.
  2. §23.3.2.prmulieres dotes saluas habere — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) clause acting as the subject of interest. mulieres is the subject accusative of the infinitive habere, and dotes is its direct object, with the adjective saluas functioning predicatively ('safe' or 'intact').
  3. §23.3.2.prpropter quas — The antecedent of the relative pronoun quas is dotes. It indicates that the dowry is the means or cause enabling women to marry.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §23.3.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:23.3.2.pr

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