- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-26
The magistrate presiding over the administration of justice is prohibited from administering justice to himself, his family, or his dependents.
[ULPIANUS libro tertio ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS on the edict, book third.]
Qui iurisdictioni praeest, neque sibi ius dicere1 debet neque uxori uel liberis suis neque libertis uel ceteris, quos secum habet.2
He who presides over the administration of justice ought not to administer justice to himself, nor to his wife or children, nor to his freedmen or other persons whom he has with him.
- 2.1.10.prius dicere
Literally "to declare the law," this is a technical legal idiom in Roman law meaning "to administer justice" or "to exercise jurisdiction." It takes the dative case to indicate the persons subject to the adjudication.
- 2.1.10.prquos secum habet
The reflexive pronoun se within the relative clause and the subject of the verb habet refer back to the main subject of the sentence, Qui iurisdictioni praeest (the one presiding over the administration of justice). The antecedent is ceteris (or the whole phrase libertis uel ceteris), denoting those under his immediate household or retinue.