- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-26
This section establishes that only a magistrate has the authority to order a trial, and that they cannot issue such an order on the day they are to return to private life.
[IDEM libro quinquagensimo primo ad Sabinum.]
[THE SAME, on Sabinus, book fifty-first.]
Eum qui iudicare iubet1 magistratum esse oportet.
He who orders a trial to be held must be a magistrate.
Magistratus autem uel is qui in potestate aliqua sit, ut puta proconsul uel praetor uel alii qui prouincias regunt, iudicare iubere eo die, quo priuati futuri essent,2 non possunt.
But a magistrate, or one who is in some position of authority, as for instance a proconsul, a praetor, or others who govern provinces, cannot order a trial to be held on that day on which they are to become private citizens.
- 2.1.13.priudicare iubet
The combination of iubere (to order) with the infinitive iudicare (to judge). In Roman procedure, this refers to the exercise of jurisdiction whereby a magistrate, rather than judging the case himself, orders an appointed private judge to hear and decide the matter.
- 2.1.13.1quo priuati futuri essent
The phrase futuri essent is the imperfect subjunctive of the active periphrastic conjugation (future participle with esse), expressing an anticipated future state ('about to become private citizens') within a relative clause of characteristic or temporal relation.