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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.191.pr

Distinction Between Divorce and Repudiation

Passage 9005 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains the difference between 'divorce' and 'repudiation', noting that the latter can apply to a future marriage (betrothal), whereas the former, etymologically derived from going in different directions, cannot apply to a betrothed woman.

[PAULUS libro trigesimo quinto ad edictum. ] §50.16.191.prInter 'diuortium' et 'repudium' hoc interest, quod repudiari etiam futurum matrimonium potest, non recte autem sponsa diuortisse dicitur, quod diuortium ex eo dictum est, quod in diuersas partes eunt qui discedunt.
[PAULUS, in the thirty-fifth book on the Edict.] There is this difference between 'divorce' and 'repudiation': that even a future marriage can be repudiated, but a betrothed woman is not correctly said to have divorced, because 'divorce' is so called from the fact that those who separate go in different directions.

Notes

  1. §50.16.191.prsponsa diuortisse dicitur — The verb dicitur forms a personal passive construction (nominative with infinitive) with the subject sponsa, meaning 'a betrothed woman is said to have divorced (diuortisse)'.
  2. §50.16.191.prex eo ... quod — The pronoun eo is a neuter singular ablative demonstrative serving as the object of the preposition ex, which cataphorically anticipates the following explanatory quod-clause ('that those who separate go in different directions').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.191.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.191.pr

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