- 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 excerpt from Gaius's commentary on the provincial edict explains the principle of cumulative liability, stating that when multiple persons are involved in damaging the edict, it is not sufficient for only one of them to pay the penalty.
[GAIUS libro primo ad edictum prouinciale.]
[GAIUS, On the Provincial Edict, Book I]
adeo quidem, ut1 non sufficiat unum eorum poenam luere.
Indeed, to such an extent that it is not sufficient for only one of them to pay the penalty.
- 2.1.8.pradeo quidem, ut
The adverb adeo and the following ut with the subjunctive (sufficiat) form a consecutive (result) clause, which connects to and intensifies the statement at the end of Ulpian's preceding fragment (§2.1.7.5) that all participants are held liable. This indicates cumulative liability, meaning that the punishment of one wrongdoer does not release the others. The subject of the impersonal verb sufficiat is the accusative-with-infinitive (A.C.I.) construction unum eorum poenam luere.