- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- AI-generated (gemini-3.5-flash) — machine translation; may contain errors
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.3.29.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-03
States that even if a procurator has been appointed for his own benefit, if the plaintiff prefers to sue the principal instead, he must be allowed to do so.
[IDEM libro nono ad edictum.]
[THE SAME, in the ninth book on the Edict.]
Si actor malit dominum potius conuenire1 quam eum qui in rem suam procurator est, dicendum est ei licere.2
If the plaintiff should prefer to sue the principal rather than him who is the procurator for his own benefit, it must be said that he is permitted to do so.
- 3.3.29.prconuenire
Here, conuenire is used in the sense of "to sue" or "to summon to court as a defendant," taking the accusatives dominum and eum as its direct objects.
- 3.3.29.prdicendum est ei licere
dicendum est is an impersonal gerundive construction ("it must be said") governing the accusative and infinitive (A.C.I.) clause ei licere, where the dative pronoun ei refers back to the plaintiff (actor) and functions as the logical subject of the impersonal infinitive licere.