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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §49.15.9.pr

Postliminium and the Rights of a Son Born in Captivity

Passage 8580 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text explains, based on a rescript by Emperor Antoninus and his father, that a son born among the enemy possesses the rights of a son if he returns through postliminium.

[ULPIANUS libro quarto ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §49.15.9.prApud hostes susceptus filius si postliminio redierit, filii iura habet: habere enim eum postliminium nulla dubitatio est post rescriptum imperatoris Antonini et diui patris eius ad Ouinium Tertullum praesidem prouinciae Mysiae inferioris.
[ULPIANUS, from the Fourth Book on the Julian and Papian Law.] If a son born among the enemy returns by the right of postliminium, he has the rights of a son; for there is no doubt that he has the right of postliminium after the rescript of the Emperor Antoninus and his divine father to Ovinius Tertullus, governor of the province of Lower Moesia.

Notes

  1. §49.15.9.prsusceptus — The perfect passive participle of the verb suscipere (to take up, acknowledge, conceive), referring here to a child born and acknowledged among the enemy.
  2. §49.15.9.prhabere enim eum postliminium — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction, where the pronoun eum is the subject accusative of the infinitive habere, and postliminium is its object. The entire clause serves as the subject of (or appositive to) the following nulla dubitatio est.

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