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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.2.pr-50.17.2.1

Exclusion of Women and Minors from Public Offices

Passage 9062 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian presents the rules that exclude women and minors from all civil and public offices, such as serving as judges, holding magistracies, or acting as legal representatives.

[ULPIANUS libro primo ad Sabinum. ] §50.17.2.prFeminae ab omnibus officiis ciuilibus uel publicis remotae sunt et ideo nec iudices esse possunt nec magistratum gerere nec postulare nec pro alio interuenire nec procuratores existere.
[ULPIANUS in his first book on Sabinus.] Women are excluded from all civil or public offices, and therefore they can neither be judges, nor hold a magistracy, nor bring legal actions, nor intervene on behalf of another, nor act as procurators.
§50.17.2.1Item impubes omnibus officiis ciuilibus debet abstinere.
Likewise, a minor must abstain from all civil offices.

Notes

  1. §50.17.2.prnec iudices esse possunt — The auxiliary verb possunt ("can") governs not only the immediate infinitive esse but also all the subsequent infinitives in the series (gerere, postulare, interuenire, existere).
  2. §50.17.2.prpostulare — In this context, postulare does not mean "to demand" in a general sense, but functions as a legal technical term meaning "to bring an action" or "to make a motion in court."
  3. §50.17.2.1impubes — impubes (minor / youth under puberty) functions as a nominative singular noun, serving as the subject of the predicate verb debet ("must").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.2.pr-50.17.2.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.2.pr-50.17.2.1

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