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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.149.pr

Presumption of Having Children When Not Childless

Passage 8963 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states the logical legal consequence that if a person cannot be said to be without children, one must necessarily say that they have children.

[IDEM libro decimo ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §50.16.149.prnam quem sine liberis esse dicere non possumus, hunc necesse est dicamus liberos habere.
[THE SAME, from the tenth book on the Lex Iulia et Papia.], this person, whom we cannot say to be without children, we must necessarily say has children.

Notes

  1. §50.16.149.prnecesse est dicamus — An impersonal expression 'necesse est' (it is necessary) taking the subjunctive 'dicamus' (first-person plural present) without the conjunction 'ut'.
  2. §50.16.149.prquem... hunc — The antecedent 'hunc' is placed after the relative clause introduced by 'quem'. Here, 'quem' serves as the subject accusative in the accusative and infinitive (AcI) construction 'quem sine liberis esse', and 'hunc' correspondingly acts as the subject accusative of 'hunc liberos habere' dependent on 'dicamus'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.149.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.149.pr

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