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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §24.2.1.pr

Grounds for Dissolution of Marriage Through Divorce, Death, or Slavery

Passage 3580 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text specifies the legal grounds on which a marriage is dissolved, namely divorce, death, captivity, or other supervening slavery of either spouse.

[PAULUS libro trigensimo quinto ad edictum. ] §24.2.1.prDirimitur matrimonium diuortio morte captiuitate uel alia contingente seruitute utrius eorum.
[PAUL, in the thirty-fifth book on the Edict.] Marriage is dissolved by divorce, death, captivity, or other supervening slavery of either of them.

Notes

  1. §24.2.1.prutrius eorum — The genitive utrius eorum ('of either of them') modifies the nouns morte (death), captiuitate (captivity), and seruitute (slavery), indicating that these events occurring to either of the spouses result in the dissolution of the marriage.
  2. §24.2.1.prcontingente — The ablative singular feminine present participle of the intransitive verb contingere ('to happen', 'to befall'), modifying the noun seruitute to mean 'other supervening/befalling slavery'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §24.2.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:24.2.1.pr

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