- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-26
Paulus explains that under this edict, the malice of the administrator of justice is what must be punished, and if an unjust judgment occurs due to an assessor's negligence, the liability should fall on the assessor themselves, not the magistrate.
[PAULUS libro tertio ad edictum.]
[PAUL, on the Edict, Book III.]
Hoc edicto dolus debet ius dicentis1 puniri: nam si adsessoris imprudentia ius aliter dictum sit quam oportuit,2 non debet hoc magistratui3 officere, sed ipsi adsessori.
Under this edict, the malice of the person administering justice must be punished; for if, through the imprudence of an assessor, the law was administered otherwise than it ought to have been, this ought not to prejudice the magistrate, but the assessor himself.
- 2.2.2.prius dicentis
Genitive singular of the present participle ius dicens (the one administering justice), functioning as a possessive or subjective genitive modifying dolus (malice).
- 2.2.2.prquam oportuit
Consisting of the conjunction quam corresponding to the comparative adverb aliter (otherwise) and the perfect active indicative third-person singular of the impersonal verb oportet (oportuit). It means "otherwise than it ought to have been."
- 2.2.2.prmagistratui
Since the verb officere (to prejudice, harm) governs the dative case, both magistratui and ipsi adsessori (to which the omitted verb in the second clause applies) are in the dative case.