collaborated with the jurist in revising and sending the
responsum to
The
Responsum also confirms the church's position that a hysterectomy is illicit if its purpose is to prevent a pregnancy that would put a woman's health at risk.
De hac re iam ad legatum Gallicum scripsi, sed nondum
responsum accepi.
Iurisprudentia duo itinera complementaria ad certitudinem moralem detegendam quoad canonem 1095 indicat: a) scientiae psychiatricae
responsum concretum diagnosticans anomaliam passam atque eiusdem incidendam in incapacitatem; b) subiecti examen iudiciale, ut invenitur in processu per summam probationum, inditiorum, symtomatum, presumptionum ...
The great Israeli posek (adjudicator) Rabbi Eliezer Waldenberg, in his
responsum Tsits Eliezer, part 19, siman 40, ruled both on a case of ovarian transplant and an egg transplant.
A typical example is found in a
responsum of one of the important decisors (see R David Ben Zimra, Responsa Radbaz, 2:728).
In 1995, he issued a short letter,
Responsum ad dubium, affirming that John Paul's decree required "definitive assent."
Nos negotiorum gestorum actio; si vero quasi mandato servi, etiam de peculio et de in rem verso agere te posse
responsum est.
Thus, the classic literary genre created by rabbis was the
responsum, a written answer to a legal question; these were collected and studied in other communities and subsequent generations as the basis for new answers to new questions.