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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §3.2.12.pr

Exemption from Infamy for Marriage by Paternal Order

Passage 470 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that a person who married by his father's order is not marked with infamy, even if he continues to retain her as his wife after being released from paternal power.

[PAULUS libro quinto ad edictum. ] §3.2.12.prQui iussu patris duxit, quamuis liberatus potestate patria eam retinuit, non notatur.
[PAULUS, in his Fifth Book on the Edict.] He who married by the order of his father is not marked with infamy, even if, after being freed from paternal power, he retained her as his wife.

Notes

  1. §3.2.12.prquamuis liberatus potestate patria eam retinuit — The conjunction 'quamuis' is used here with the indicative perfect 'retinuit' to form a concessive clause ("even if he retained"), which is common in legal Latin instead of the classical subjunctive. The participle 'liberatus' agrees with the subject 'qui', indicating a prior event ("after being freed").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §3.2.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.2.12.pr

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