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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.1.30.pr

Citizenship and Fatherland of Those Born in Villages

Passage 8673 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Rules on which municipality or commonwealth a person originating from a village is considered to have as their fatherland.

[ULPIANUS libro sexagensimo primo ad edictum. ] §50.1.30.prQui ex uico ortus est, eam patriam intellegitur habere, cui rei publicae uicus ille respondet.
[ULPIAN, On the Edict, Book LXI] who originates from a village is understood to have that commonwealth as his fatherland to which that village belongs.

Notes

  1. §50.1.30.prcui rei publicae uicus ille respondet — A relative construction where the antecedent noun (res publica) is incorporated into the relative clause with the relative adjective cui. The verb respondeo governs the dative (cui rei publicae) and here means 'to belong to' or 'to correspond to', explaining which commonwealth the village is administratively attached to.
  2. §50.1.30.printellegitur habere — A personal passive construction where the subject of the main clause, 'Qui ex uico ortus est' (he who originates from a village), serves as the subject of intellegitur ('he is understood to have'). This is preferred to an impersonal passive construction with an accusative and infinitive ('intellegitur eum habere').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.1.30.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.1.30.pr

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