[IDEM libro secundo sententiarum. ] §25.7.5.prConcubinam ex ea prouincia, in qua quis aliquid administrat, habere potest.
[THE SAME, Sentences, Book 2] One can have a concubine from that province in which he administers some office.
Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §25.7.5.pr
Concubinage with a Woman from One's Own Province
Summary
A provision allowing an administrator to have a concubine from the province where they perform their official duties.
Notes
- §25.7.5.prquis — Used instead of the indefinite pronoun aliquis. While typically occurring after particles like si, nisi, ne, or num, here it stands alone to mean "someone" or "anyone", either as a concise legal expression or as a remnant of an original conditional context.
- §25.7.5.prConcubinam ... habere — concubinam as the object of habere functions as a predicate accusative ("to have as a concubine"). This reflects the legal background where administrators were prohibited from contracting legal marriage (iustae nuptiae) with women of their province, but were permitted to keep them in concubinage (concubinatus).
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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §25.7.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:25.7.5.pr
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