- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.4.18.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-27
Explains the opinion that no one is allowed to be summoned to court from their own house because a house is the safest refuge for everyone, and doing so is considered an act of violence.
[GAIUS libro primo ad legem duodecim tabularum.]
[GAIUS, in the first book on the Law of the Twelve Tables.]
Plerique putauerunt nullum de domo sua in ius uocari licere,1 quia domus tutissimum cuique refugium atque receptaculum sit, eumque qui inde in ius uocaret, uim inferre uideri.2
Most people have thought that no one is allowed to be summoned to court from his own house, because a house is the safest refuge and shelter for everyone, and he who would summon someone from there to court is considered to commit violence.
- 2.4.18.prnullum de domo sua in ius uocari licere
An accusative and infinitive construction governed by the main verb putauerunt. The passive infinitive phrase nullum ... uocari (for no one to be summoned) functions as the subject of the impersonal verb licere (to be allowed).
- 2.4.18.preumque ... uim inferre uideri
A continuation of the accusative and infinitive construction governed by putauerunt. Here, eum is the subject accusative and uideri is the infinitive verb. uideri is used in the passive sense of 'to be deemed/seen', taking the active infinitive uim inferre (to commit violence) as its complement.