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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §43.30.2.pr

Husband's Claim Against the Father for His Wife

Passage 7181 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that a husband can rightfully sue even a father who holds paternal power over his daughter to have his wife produced and led away.

[HERMOGENIANUS libro sexto iuris epitomarum. ] §43.30.2.prImmo magis de uxore exhibenda ac ducenda pater, etiam qui filiam in potestate habet, a marito recte conuenitur.
[HERMOGENIANUS, Epitomes of Law, book six.] Nay rather, on the production and taking away of a wife, a father, even one who has his daughter in his power, is rightfully sued by the husband.

Notes

  1. §43.30.2.prde uxore exhibenda ac ducenda — An ablative phrase with the gerundive (exhibenda ac ducenda) agreeing with the noun uxore, referring to the object of the praetorian interdict for producing and taking away a wife (interdictum de uxore exhibenda ac ducenda).
  2. §43.30.2.prconuenitur — The third-person singular present passive indicative of the transitive verb conuenire ('to sue' or 'to summon legally'). The subject is pater, and the active agent is expressed by a marito ('by the husband') with the preposition a.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §43.30.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:43.30.2.pr

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