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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §23.3.73.pr-23.3.73.1

Dotal Duty of Disabled Persons and Early Dowry Return

Passage 3447 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage details the dotal obligations and capacity to marry of those with physical disabilities, and outlines the exceptional cases where a dowry may be restored to a non-extravagant wife during the marriage for specific familial support.

[IDEM libro secundo sententiarum. ] §23.3.73.prMutus surdus caecus dotis nomine obligantur, quia et nuptias contrahere possunt.
[THE SAME in the second book of Opinions.] A mute, a deaf person, and a blind person can be obligated under the name of a dowry, because they can also contract a marriage.
§23.3.73.1Manente matrimonio non perditurae uxori ob has causas dos reddi potest: ut sese suosque alat, ut fundum idoneum emat, ut in exilium uel in insulam relegato parenti praestet alimonia, aut ut egentem uirum fratrem sororemue sustineat.
While the marriage continues, the dowry can be restored to a wife who is not going to waste it, for the following purposes: to support herself and her family, to purchase a suitable estate, to provide maintenance for a parent relegated to exile or to an island, or to support a needy husband, brother, or sister.

Notes

  1. §23.3.73.prMutus surdus caecus — The singular adjectives used substantively, mutus, surdus, and caecus, are listed without conjunctions (asyndeton), and accordingly take the plural verb obligantur.
  2. §23.3.73.1non perditurae — This is the feminine singular dative of the future active participle of perdo (to lose, waste), negated by non and modifying uxori. The future participle here denotes likelihood or disposition, meaning 'unlikely to squander' or 'not going to waste' the dowry.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §23.3.73.pr-23.3.73.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:23.3.73.pr-23.3.73.1

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