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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §44.7.48.pr

Participation of Deaf Persons in Consensual Contracts

Passage 7333 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The passage explains that in transactions where speech is not required and consent alone is sufficient, such as letting and hiring or purchase, a deaf person can also participate because they can understand and consent.

[IDEM libro sexto decimo ad Plautium. ] §44.7.48.prIn quibuscumque negotiis sermone opus non est sufficiente consensu, iis etiam surdus interuenire potest, quia potest intellegere et consentire, ueluti in locationibus conductionibus, emptionibus et ceteris.
[THE SAME, from his sixteenth book on Plautius.] In whatever transactions speech is not necessary, consent being sufficient, a deaf person also can take part in them, because he can understand and consent, as, for example, in lettings and hirings, purchases, and the like.

Notes

  1. 44.7.48.prsufficiente consensu — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the present participle 'sufficiente' and the noun 'consensu', expressing a condition or reason ('since consent is sufficient' or 'consent being sufficient') that complements the preceding relative clause.
  2. 44.7.48.priis — A demonstrative pronoun in the neuter plural dative, which refers back to the preceding relative clause 'In quibuscumque negotiis'. The dative case is required because the intransitive verb 'interuenire' (to take part in, intervene) governs the dative.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §44.7.48.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:44.7.48.pr

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