- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- CTS URN
- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.5.2.pr-2.5.2.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-27
This passage states that anyone summoned before a praetor or other jurisdictional authority must appear to determine whether jurisdiction exists, and specifies the fines for non-appearance and conditions for their remission.
[PAULUS libro primo ad edictum.]
[PAULUS, in the first book on the Edict.]
Ex quacumque causa ad praetorem uel alios, qui iurisdictioni praesunt, in ius uocatus uenire debet, ut hoc ipsum sciatur, an iurisdictio eius sit.1
For whatever reason, one who has been summoned to court before the praetor or others who preside over jurisdiction must appear, in order that this very thing may be known, whether he has jurisdiction.
Si quis in ius uocatus non ierit, ex causa a competenti iudice multa pro iurisdictione iudicis damnabitur: rusticitati enim hominis parcendum erit: item si nihil intersit actoris eo tempore in ius aduersarium uenisse,2 remittit praetor poenam, puta quia feriatus dies fuit.
If anyone, having been summoned to court, has not gone, he shall, upon cause shown, be condemned to a fine by the competent judge in proportion to the jurisdiction of the judge: for allowance must be made for the rustic simplicity of the person: likewise, if it is of no concern to the plaintiff that the adversary appeared in court at that time, the praetor remits the penalty, for instance, because it was a holiday.
- 2.5.2.pran iurisdictio eius sit
An indirect question clause explaining the preceding hoc ipsum. The pronoun eius refers to the praetor or others who preside over jurisdiction before whom the person was summoned.
- 2.5.2.1nihil intersit actoris eo tempore in ius aduersarium uenisse
The impersonal verb intersit takes the genitive of the person concerned (actoris) and the accusative with infinitive clause (aduersarium uenisse) representing the object of interest. nihil is used adverbially to mean 'not at all'.