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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.4.2.pr

Capacity of a Son in Power Holding Public Office

Passage 8699 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Presents an exception regarding public offices, where a person who is under paternal power is nonetheless deemed to have his own son under his power.

[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo primo ad Sabinum. ] §50.4.2.prQuod ad honores pertinet, creditur in potestate filium habere etiam is, qui in patris potestate est.
[ULPIANUS, In the Twenty-First Book on Sabinus.] As far as public offices are concerned, even he who is in the power of his father is believed to have his son in his power.

Notes

  1. 50.4.2.prcreditur ... habere — The verb `creditur` is used personally with the subject `is` (Nominative with Infinitive construction), meaning 'even he is believed to have [his son in his power]'.
  2. 50.4.2.prin potestate — This phrase modifying the infinitive `habere` is contrasted with the subsequent `patris potestate` (the power of the father) and contextually means 'under his own power'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.4.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.4.2.pr

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