- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.16.3.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-24
According to Ulpian, the legate of a proconsul cannot perform an adoption because there is no legis actio at all before him.
[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo sexto ad Sabinum.]
[ULPIANUS, from the twenty-sixth book of his Commentary on Sabinus.]
Nec adoptare potest:1 omnino enim non est apud eum legis actio.2
Nor can he perform an adoption; for before him there is absolutely no legis actio.
- 1.16.3.prNec adoptare potest
The subject of the main verb potest is understood from the preceding fragment 2, section 1, as the "legate of the proconsul" (legatus proconsulis). Since the legate lacks voluntary jurisdiction, he cannot oversee acts like adoption that require formal legal procedures.
- 1.16.3.prlegis actio
Here, legis actio refers not only to standard contentious litigation but to the whole class of formal civil law procedures—such as in iure cessio performed under voluntary jurisdiction (iurisdictio voluntaria)—which retained their ritualistic, quasi-litigious character during the classical period.