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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.187.pr

Deceased Leaving a Pregnant Wife Not Considered Childless

Passage 9247 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This fragment establishes the legal principle that a deceased person who leaves a pregnant wife is not considered to have died without offspring.

[IDEM libro sexto decimo digestorum. ] §50.17.187.prSi quis praegnatem uxorem reliquit, non uidetur sine liberis decessisse.
[THE SAME, in the sixteenth book of the Digests.] If anyone has left a pregnant wife, he is not deemed to have died without children.

Notes

  1. §50.17.187.prnon uidetur ... decessisse — The verb 'uideri' (passive of 'uidere', meaning 'to be deemed' or 'to seem') functions here in a personal construction with the subject of the clause (the preceding 'quis') as its subject ('he is not deemed to have...'), rather than an impersonal one ('it does not seem that...'). The perfect infinitive 'decessisse' indicates a prior action relative to the main verb 'uidetur'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.187.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.187.pr

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