- Source
- 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 remedies and the penal action available to a patron's son under parental power if a freedman summons him to court contrary to the praetor's edict.
[ULPIANUS libro quinquagensimo septimo ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS, in the fifty-seventh book on the Edict.]
Si libertus in ius uocauerit contra praetoris edictum filium patroni sui, quem ipse patronus in potestate habet: probandum est1 absente patre2 subueniendum esse filio qui in potestate est et ei poenalem in factum actionem, id est quinquaginta aureorum, aduersus libertum competere.
If a freedman, contrary to the praetor’s edict, summons to court the son of his patron, whom the patron himself holds under his power: it must be approved that, in the absence of the father, relief should be granted to the son who is under power, and that a penal action on the facts, that is, of fifty aurei, lies for him against the freedman.
- 2.4.12.prprobandum est
Two clauses depend in parallel on the impersonal gerundive construction "probandum est": first, the impersonal gerundive "subueniendum esse" (taking the dative "filio"), and second, the accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction "actionem ... competere" (where "actionem" is the subject accusative of "competere", and "ei" is a dative of reference/possession).
- 2.4.12.prabsente patre
An ablative absolute construction utilizing the present participle "absens," expressing the attendant circumstance or condition "in the absence of the father."