- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-29
The author argues that since a slave lacks the capacity to be a party to a lawsuit, any stipulations or suretyships made regarding their production in court are void.
[IULIANUS libro quinquagensimo quinto digestorum.]
[JULIANUS, Digest, book 55]
Quotiens seruus iudicio sistendi causa1 ut ipse litigaturus2 uel ab alio stipulatur uel ipse promittit: nec committitur3 stipulatio nec fideiussores tenentur, quia seruus conueniri uel conuenire non potest.
Whenever a slave, with a view to being produced in court as if he himself were about to litigate, either stipulates with another or himself promises: neither is the stipulation forfeited, nor are the sureties bound, because a slave can neither be sued nor sue.
- 2.11.13.priudicio sistendi causa
iudicio is a dative ("in court", "for trial") modifying the genitive gerund sistendi (from sistere, "to produce"). Combined with causa (+ genitive), it expresses purpose: "for the purpose of being produced in court".
- 2.11.13.prut ipse litigaturus
The conjunction ut here means "as if" (expressing a hypothetical assumption), taking the future active participle litigaturus (agreeing with the subject seruus) to indicate an assumption contrary to the legal fact (since a slave cannot litigate).
- 2.11.13.prcommittitur
When the verb committere has stipulatio (stipulation, verbal contract) as its subject, it is used in a technical legal sense meaning "to be forfeited" or "to be incurred/triggered" (i.e., the condition of the penal stipulation is fulfilled, making the penalty payable).