- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-02
Ulpian lists a supervening inheritance as a just cause for a proxy's unavailability, and asserts that a procurator should not be compelled to act even if the principal is present.
[ULPIANUS libro octauo ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS, in the eighth book on the Edict.]
uel hereditas superueniens eum occupet:1 uel ex alia iusta causa. hoc amplius et si habeat praesentem dominum, non debere compelli procuratorem,2
or if a supervening inheritance should occupy him; or for any other just cause. Furthermore, even if he has his principal present, the procurator ought not to be compelled,
- 3.3.10.pruel hereditas superueniens eum occupet
This clause continues the subjunctive construction from the previous fragment (Gaius's alleget), with the conditional conjunction si omitted. The subject hereditas superueniens refers to an unexpected inheritance, which occupies (occupet) him (eum).
- 3.3.10.prnon debere compelli procuratorem
An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction, where procuratorem is the subject accusative and debere (governing the passive infinitive compelli) is the main infinitive. It represents a general legal rule or indirect discourse formulated by Ulpian.