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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §37.3.2.pr

Capacity of Mute, Deaf, and Blind Persons to Accept Possession

Passage 5728 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It rules that mute, deaf, and blind persons can accept the possession of goods, provided they understand what is being done.

[ULPIANUS libro trigesimo nono ad edictum. ] §37.3.2.prMutus surdus caecus bonorum possessionem admittere possunt, si quod agatur intellegant.
[ULPIANUS, book 39 on the Edict.] A mute, a deaf, or a blind person can accept the possession of goods, if they understand what is being done.

Notes

  1. §37.3.2.prMutus surdus caecus — The asyndetic juxtaposition without any conjunctions like aut or et indicates that the same legal rule applies individually to any person who is mute, deaf, or blind.
  2. §37.3.2.prquod agatur — The subjunctive agatur in the relative clause is due to the attraction of mood (attractio modi) because it is subordinate to the subjunctive intellegant in the conditional clause, or it refers to an indefinite, objective action ("what is being done"). The verb agere here refers to legal acts or transactions.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §37.3.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:37.3.2.pr

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