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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §4.5.6.pr

Capitis Deminutio and Preservation of Public Offices

Passage 758 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that capitis deminutio, particularly when citizenship is preserved, does not terminate public offices, but only results in the loss of personal private and familial rights.

[ULPIANUS libro quinquagensimo primo ad Sabinum. ] §4.5.6.prNam et cetera officia quae publica sunt, in eo non finiuntur: capitis enim minutio priuata hominis et familiae eius iura, non ciuitatis amittit.
[ULPIANUS libro quinquagensimo primo ad Sabinum.] For all other offices as well which are public do not terminate in him: for capitis minutio loses a person's private rights and those of his family, not those of citizenship.

Notes

  1. §4.5.6.prin eo — The pronoun eo (ablative singular masculine of is) refers in context to the person who has undergone capitis deminutio.
  2. §4.5.6.pramittit — The verb amittere (to lose) usually takes a person as its subject, but here it has the abstract noun capitis minutio as its subject, functioning in a causative or resultative sense ("causes the loss of", "results in the forfeiture of").
  3. §4.5.6.prnon ciuitatis — The noun iura is understood from the preceding phrase priuata hominis et familiae eius iura, functioning as non iura ciuitatis ("not the rights of citizenship").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §4.5.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.5.6.pr

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