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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.1.46.pr

Permissible Correction of Wording in Court Records

Passage 6898 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that correcting the wording of judicial records is permitted, provided that the substance of the judgment remains unchanged.

[HERMOGENIANUS libro secundo iuris epitomarum. ] §42.1.46.prActorum uerba emendare tenore sententiae perseuerante non est prohibitum.
[HERMOGENIANUS, in the second book of the Epitomes of Law.] It is not prohibited to correct the words of the records, as long as the substance of the judgment remains unchanged.

Notes

  1. §42.1.46.prtenore sententiae perseuerante — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun tenore (ablative singular of tenor, 'substance, tenor') and the present participle perseuerante (ablative singular of perseuerare, 'to persist, remain'). It expresses a condition or limitation: 'so long as the substance of the judgment remains unchanged.'
  2. §42.1.46.prActorum uerba emendare — The infinitive emendare ('to correct') functions as the subject of the clause. Actorum is the genitive plural of the neuter noun acta ('records, minutes'), modifying uerba (accusative plural of verbum, 'word').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.1.46.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.1.46.pr

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