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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.5.3.pr

Husband's Priority over the Father in Adultery Accusations

Passage 8177 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It provides that in an accusation of adultery, the husband is preferred to the father unless the father proves the husband's infamy or collusion with his wife.

[IDEM libro secundo de adulteris. ] §48.5.3.prNisi igitur pater maritum infamem aut arguat aut doceat colludere magis cum uxore quam ex animo accusare, postponetur marito.
[The same, in the second book on Adulteries.] Therefore, unless the father either proves that the husband is infamous or shows that he is colluding with his wife rather than accusing her in earnest, he will be postponed to the husband.

Notes

  1. §48.5.3.prarguat — Accompanied by the accusative noun maritum and the adjective infamem, forming a double accusative construction meaning "to prove that the husband is infamous (infamis)."
  2. §48.5.3.prdoceat — In the accusative and infinitive construction following doceat (colludere... and accusare), the accusative subject of the infinitives, maritum, is omitted as it is identical to the object of the preceding clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.5.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.5.3.pr

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