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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.4.2.pr

Loss of Statutory Tutelage through Capitis Deminutio

Passage 3793 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that there is no doubt that statutory tutelage is lost by the pupil's capitis deminutio, even by that which occurs while citizenship is preserved.

[IDEM libro trigesimo septimo ad Sabinum. ] §26.4.2.prLegitimam tutelam capitis deminutione pupilli etiam ea, quae salua ciuitate contingit, amitti nulla dubitatio est.
[THE SAME, from the thirty-seventh book on Sabinus.] There is no doubt that a statutory tutelage is lost by the capitis deminutio of the pupil, even by that which occurs while citizenship remains intact.

Notes

  1. 26.4.2.prea, quae salua ciuitate contingit — ea is a demonstrative pronoun in the ablative, referring back to capitis deminutione. salua ciuitate is an ablative absolute ('citizenship being unimpaired'), which refers to the minor loss of status (capitis deminutio minima) occurring through family changes without the loss of Roman citizenship.
  2. 26.4.2.prlegitimam tutelam... amitti — An accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction, where legitimam tutelam is the subject accusative and amitti is the passive infinitive, serving as the object clause of the main expression nulla dubitatio est ('there is no doubt that...').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.4.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.4.2.pr

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