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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.201.pr

Interpretation of Son and Father to Include Lineal Kin

Passage 9015 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It argues that in legal interpretation, the term 'son' should be understood to include a daughter and a grandson, and the term 'father' should include a grandfather.

[IDEM libro octagensimo primo digestorum. ] §50.16.201.prIusta interpretatione recipiendum est, ut appellatione 'filii', sicuti filiam familias contineri saepe respondebimus, ita et nepos uideatur comprehendi, et 'patris' nomine auus quoque demonstrari intellegatur.
[THE SAME, in the eighty-first book of the Digests.] It should be accepted by a fair interpretation that, just as we shall often answer that a daughter of the family is contained under the appellation of 'son', so also a grandson should be seen to be comprehended, and by the name of 'father' a grandfather also should be understood to be indicated.

Notes

  1. §50.16.201.prrecipiendum est, ut — The impersonal gerundive construction `recipiendum est` (it should be accepted) takes the `ut` clause (with subjunctives `uideatur` and `intellegatur`) as its subject.
  2. §50.16.201.prsicuti ... respondebimus, ita ... — A correlative construction with `sicuti` (just as) and `ita` (so). `respondebimus` is the future tense (first-person plural) of `respondere`, indicating a habitual or rule-based interpretive stance that the jurists will continue to offer.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.201.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.201.pr

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