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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.153.pr

Fetus in the Womb Considered as Existing at Father's Death

Passage 8967 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Terentius Clemens states that a child left in the womb at the time of the father's death must be understood to have already existed at that moment.

[TERENTIUS CLEMENS libro undecimo ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §50.16.153.prIntellegendus est mortis tempore fuisse, qui in utero relictus est.
[TERENTIUS CLEMENS, in the eleventh book on the Lex Iulia et Papia.] He who was left in the womb is to be understood to have existed at the time of death.

Notes

  1. §50.16.153.printellegendus est ... fuisse — The gerundive intellegendus est ("is to be understood") takes the relative clause qui in utero relictus est as its subject, combined with the perfect infinitive fuisse ("to have existed") in a nominative with infinitive (nominativus cum infinitivo) construction. fuisse expresses existence at a specific past moment (mortis tempore).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.153.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.153.pr

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