- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-04
It states that a general mandate does not include a compromise made to settle a dispute, and if the mandator does not ratify it, they cannot be barred from bringing legal actions.
[IDEM libro quarto responsorum.]
[THE SAME in the fourth book of Responses.]
Mandato generali non contineri1 etiam transactionem decidendi causa2 interpositam: et ideo si postea is qui mandauit transactionem ratam non habuit,3 non posse eum repelli ab actionibus exercendis.4
A general mandate does not include even a compromise entered into for the purpose of settling a dispute; and therefore, if the mandator subsequently does not ratify the compromise, he cannot be barred from bringing actions.
- 3.3.60.prcontineri
This infinitive (as well as 'posse' later in the sentence) forms an accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction, representing an indirect statement quoted from the 'Responses' indicated in the book title. The subject accusative is 'transactionem', and 'mandato generali' is an ablative (or dative) of place/instrument indicating where it is contained.
- 3.3.60.prdecidendi causa
A purpose expression consisting of the genitive gerund 'decidendi' (from 'decido', meaning to settle or decide) modifying 'causa' ('for the sake of', 'for the purpose of'). Here it refers to settling a dispute or litigation.
- 3.3.60.prratam non habuit
An idiomatic expression 'ratam habere' meaning 'to ratify, approve, or hold valid'. The feminine accusative singular adjective 'ratam' agrees with the preceding feminine noun 'transactionem', which functions as the object (or rather, predicate accusative of the object).
- 3.3.60.prab actionibus exercendis
A construction with the preposition 'ab' and the gerundive. 'actiones exercere' means 'to exercise actions' (i.e., to bring lawsuits), and the gerundive 'exercendis' agrees in gender, number, and case with the noun 'actionibus' (feminine ablative plural).