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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.3.9.pr

Return of a Captured Father and the Validity of His Will

Passage 4164 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that if a father is captured by enemies while his son remains in the state, the testament is not revoked upon the father's return.

[PAULUS libro secundo ad Sabinum. ] §28.3.9.prSi pater ab hostibus capiatur filio manente in ciuitate, reuerso eo non rumpitur testamentum:
[PAULUS, in the second book on Sabinus] If a father should be captured by enemies while his son remains in the state, the testament is not revoked upon his return.

Notes

  1. §28.3.9.prfilio manente in ciuitate — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun "filio" and the present participle "manente", supplying a concomitant circumstance ("while his son remains in the state") within the conditional clause.
  2. §28.3.9.prreuerso eo — An ablative absolute construction consisting of "reuerso" (the perfect participle of the deponent verb reuertor) and the pronoun "eo". The pronoun "eo" refers back to the "pater" of the conditional clause. It denotes a completed action upon the father's return under the right of postliminium.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.3.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.3.9.pr

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