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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.3.pr

Capacity to Refuse Contingent on Capacity to Consent

Passage 9063 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpianus presents the legal maxim that the power or right to refuse (to be unwilling) belongs only to one who has the capacity or right to consent (to be willing).

[IDEM libro tertio ad Sabinum. ] §50.17.3.prEius est nolle, qui potest uelle.
[THE SAME, in his third book on Sabinus.] To be unwilling belongs to him who is able to will.

Notes

  1. §50.17.3.prEius est nolle — The genitive eius denotes possession or characteristic, which, together with the copula est and the infinitive subject nolle, means 'belongs to' or 'is characteristic of'. This eius also functions as the antecedent (the genitive of the demonstrative pronoun is) of the relative clause qui...

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