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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §3.1.5.pr

Persons Unable to Manage Affairs Due to Chronic Illness

Passage 452 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Describes those who are unable to manage their own affairs due to some permanent illness.

[ULPIANUS libro nono ad edictum. ] §3.1.5.pret qui negotiis suis aliquo perpetuo morbo superesse non possunt.
[ULPIANUS in his ninth book on the Edict.] and those who, because of some permanent disease, cannot manage their own affairs.

Notes

  1. §3.1.5.prnegotiis suis ... superesse — The verb superesse (governing the dative) is used here not in its common sense of "to survive" or "to remain," but in the legal sense of "to attend to," "to manage," or "to be equal to (affairs)." Negotiis suis is the dative plural object.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §3.1.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.1.5.pr

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