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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.8.pr

Indestructibility of Blood Rights by Civil Law

Passage 9068 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

States the principle that the rights of blood relation cannot be dissolved by any rule of civil law.

[IDEM libro quarto ad Sabinum. ] §50.17.8.prIura sanguinis nullo iure ciuili dirimi possunt.
[THE SAME, in his fourth book on Sabinus.] The rights of blood relation cannot be destroyed by any civil law.

Notes

  1. §50.17.8.prnullo iure ciuili — Ablative of means ("by no civil law"). It expresses the legal principle that positive civil law (ius civile) cannot unilaterally nullify blood relationships (iura sanguinis) which are based on natural law.
  2. §50.17.8.prdirimi — Present passive infinitive of the verb dirimo (to break off, nullify, or dissolve), acting as a complementary infinitive dependent on the verb possunt.

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