- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.3.25.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-03
Discusses how the rules of procuratorship apply to the plaintiff as well, addressing disputes over agency, the preservation of a procurator's reputation, the rights of a procurator in his own interest, and the protection of his right of retention.
[ULPIANUS libro nono ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS, in the ninth book on the Edict.]
Quae omnia non solum ex parte rei, sed etiam in persona actoris obseruabuntur. sed si aduersarius uel ipse procurator dicat dominum mentiri,1 apud praetorem haec finiri oportet. nec ferendus est procurator qui sibi adserit procurationem: nam hoc ipso suspectus est qui operam suam ingerit inuito.2 nisi forte purgare magis conuicium quam procurationem exsequi maluit. et hactenus erit audiendus, si dicat se procuratione quidem carere uelle, sed si id inlaesa existimatione sua3 fiat: ceterum ferendus erit pudorem suum purgans. plane si dicat in rem suam se procuratorem datum et hoc probauerit, non debet carere propria lite. item si retentione aliqua procurator uti uelit, non facile ab eo lis erit transferenda,4
All these things shall be observed not only on the part of the defendant, but also in the person of the plaintiff. But if the adversary or the procurator himself should say that the principal is lying, this matter must be decided before the praetor. Nor is a procurator to be tolerated who claims the procuratorship for himself; for he is suspected by this very fact, who forces his services upon one who is unwilling. Unless, perhaps, he preferred to clear himself of a charge rather than to carry out the procuratorship; and he shall be heard to this extent, if he should say that he indeed wishes to be rid of the procuratorship, but only if this be done without injury to his reputation; otherwise, he must be tolerated while clearing his honor. Clearly, if he should say that he was appointed as procurator in his own interest and should prove this, he ought not to be deprived of his own lawsuit. Likewise, if the procurator wishes to make use of any right of retention, the lawsuit must not easily be transferred from him,
- 3.3.25.prdominum mentiri
An accusative-and-infinitive construction functioning as the object of the verb dicat. dominum is the subject accusative of the deponent infinitive mentiri.
- 3.3.25.prqui operam suam ingerit inuito
inuito is the dative singular of the adjective inuitus used substantively to mean 'the unwilling person (the principal)', serving as the indirect object of the verb ingerit. The relative clause qui... with its antecedent omitted functions as the subject of the sentence.
- 3.3.25.prinlaesa existimatione sua
An ablative absolute construction consisting of the ablative noun existimatione and the adjective inlaesa, expressing a condition or attendant circumstance ('with his reputation unharmed').
- 3.3.25.prab eo lis erit transferenda
transferenda (erit) is a gerundive (future passive participle) expressing necessity or obligation. ab eo is not an ablative of agent, but an ablative of separation or origin, meaning 'from him'.