Digestorum libri
Ex libro XXX
Dig. 22,3,13Idem libro trigesimo digestorum. Cum de aetate hominis quaereretur, Caesar noster in haec verba rescripsit: ‘Et durum et iniquum est, cum de statu aetatis alicuius quaereretur et diversae professiones proferuntur, ea potissimum stare, quae nocet: sed causa cognita veritatem excuti oportet et ex eo potissimum annos computari, ex quo praecipuam fidem in ea re constare credibilius videtur’.
The Same, Digest, Book XXX. Where an inquiry was made with reference to the age of a man, our Emperor issued the following Rescript: “It is both hard and unjust, when a question arises with reference to a party’s age, and different statements are made, that one should be accepted which is prejudicial; but in the trial of a case the truth should be considered, and his age should be computed according to the document which seems to be most credible, and to deserve the greatest confidence in the investigation of the matter.”
Dig. 23,2,23Idem libro trigensimo digestorum. Lege Papia cavetur omnibus ingenuis praeter senatores eorumque liberos libertinam uxorem habere licere.