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- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-27
Ulpian discusses the right of magistrates to defend their jurisdiction through penal actions, the criteria for determining non-obedience to a magistrate, the liability of representatives, and the nature of the action for non-obedience (limited to the value of the matter, purely penal, and time-limited).
[ULPIANUS libro primo ad edictum.]
[ULPIAN, on the Edict, Book I.]
Omnibus magistratibus, non tamen duumuiris, secundum ius potestatis suae concessum est iurisdictionem suam defendere poenali iudicio.
All magistrates, but not duumviri, are permitted, in accordance with the right of their power, to defend their jurisdiction by a penal action.
Is uidetur ius dicenti non obtemperasse, qui quod extremum in iurisdictione est1 non fecit: ueluti si quis rem mobilem uindicari a se passus non est, sed duci eam uel ferri passus est: ceterum si et sequentia recusauit, tunc non obtemperasse uidetur.2
He is deemed not to have obeyed the person administering justice who did not perform what is the ultimate step in jurisdiction; for example, if someone did not allow a movable thing to be claimed from him, but did allow it to be led or carried away; otherwise, if he refused also the subsequent steps, then he is deemed not to have obeyed.
Si procurator tuus uel tutor uel curator ius dicenti non obtemperauit, ipse punitur, non dominus uel pupillus.
If your procurator, tutor, or curator has not obeyed the person administering justice, he himself is punished, not the principal or the ward.
Non solum autem reum, qui non obtemperauit, hoc edicto teneri Labeo ait, uerum etiam petitorem.
Moreover, Labeo says that not only the defendant who has not obeyed is bound by this edict, but also the plaintiff.
Hoc iudicium non ad id quod interest, sed quanti ea res est concluditur:3 et cum meram poenam contineat, neque post annum neque in heredem datur.
This action is limited not to the damages, but to the value of the matter; and since it involves a pure penalty, it is granted neither after a year nor against an heir.
- 2.3.1.1quod extremum in iurisdictione est
This phrase means "what is ultimate in jurisdiction" and refers not to the initiation stage of normal legal proceedings (such as appearing in court), but to the subsequent final stages, such as compulsory enforcement.
- 2.3.1.1ceterum si et sequentia recusauit, tunc non obtemperasse uidetur
The example starting with ueluti, where someone allows physical carrying away of property, does not immediately count as non-obedience because there is no physical resistance. The clause starting with ceterum limits this by specifying that only if they also refuse the subsequent steps (such as physical delivery) are they deemed not to have obeyed.
- 2.3.1.4quanti ea res est concluditur
quanti ea res est is a noun phrase using the genitive of value, meaning "the sum equal to the value of the matter." concluditur is a passive verb used here in the sense of "is limited to" or "is bounded by."