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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §24.1.40.pr

Validity of a Wife's Gift for Husband to Attain Office

Passage 3552 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage states that a gift made by a wife to her husband for the purpose of acquiring a dignity is valid to the extent necessary to supplement that dignity.

[ULPIANUS libro secundo responsorum. ] §24.1.40.prQuod apiscendae dignitatis gratia ab uxore in maritum collatum est, eatenus ratum est, quatenus dignitati supplendae opus est:
[ULPIANUS in his second book of responses.]\n\nWhat has been bestowed by a wife upon her husband for the sake of acquiring a dignity is valid to the extent that it is necessary for supplementing the dignity.

Notes

  1. §24.1.40.prapiscendae dignitatis gratia — This is a purpose expression where the postposition gratia (governing the genitive, "for the sake of") is combined with the gerundive apiscendae and the noun dignitatis.
  2. §24.1.40.preatenus ... quatenus — A correlative pair of adverbs meaning "to the extent that... so far...", where the main clause's eatenus is limited by the subordinate clause's quatenus.
  3. §24.1.40.prdignitati supplendae — A gerundive construction in the dative case accompanying opus est ("there is need of"), expressing the purpose or destination ("for supplementing the dignity") for which something is needed.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §24.1.40.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:24.1.40.pr

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