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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §34.2.37.pr

Exclusion of Women's Clothing from Ornaments and Mistake of Heir

Passage 5197 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus's opinion that women's clothing is not included under the term "ornaments", and that a mistake by an heir in interpreting a legacy does not alter the law.

[PAULUS libro uicesimo primo responsorum. ] §34.2.37.prOrnamentorum appellatione uestem muliebrem non contineri nec errorem heredis ius mutasse respondi.
[PAULUS, in the twenty-first book of his Opinions.] I replied that women's clothing is not included under the term "ornaments", and that an error of the heir did not change the law.

Notes

  1. §34.2.37.prOrnamentorum appellatione uestem muliebrem non contineri nec errorem heredis ius mutasse respondi — The main verb `respondi` (I replied) governs two accusative-and-infinitive clauses connected by `nec` (and not): `uestem muliebrem non contineri...` and `errorem heredis ius mutasse`. In the second clause, `errorem` (error, accusative) functions as the subject accusative of the transitive active infinitive `mutasse` (perfect of `mutare`), and `ius` (law, accusative) is its direct object.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §34.2.37.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:34.2.37.pr

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