- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-04
Explains specific examples where actions taken through a procurator do not acquire new actions but rather retain existing ones or rights, such as suing within the lawful period or forbidding a new work.
[IDEM libro primo manualium.]
[THE SAME in the first book of Manuals.]
Per procuratorem non semper adquirimus actiones, sed retinemus: ueluti si reum conueniat1 intra legitimum tempus: uel si prohibeat opus nouum fieri, ut interdictum nobis utile sit quod ui aut clam,2 nam et hic3 pristinum ius nobis conseruat.
Through a procurator we do not always acquire actions, but we retain them: as for example, if he sues the defendant within the lawful period; or if he forbids a new work to be done, so that the interdict “by force or stealth” may be useful to us, for in this case too, it preserves our former right.
- 3.3.72.prconueniat
The third-person singular present subjunctive of the transitive verb conuenio (to sue, summon). The subject is contextually the procurator (agent), forming a conditional clause with reum (defendant) as its accusative object.
- 3.3.72.prquod ui aut clam
A legal formula referring to the interdict "concerning what is done by force or stealth" (interdictum quod vi aut clam), where quod is the neuter relative pronoun referring back to interdictum.
- 3.3.72.pret hic
hic is an adverb meaning 'here' or 'in this case', so et hic translates to 'in this case too'. While it could theoretically be interpreted as the masculine singular nominative demonstrative referring to the procurator, taking it as an adverb referring to the entire situation of the prohibition is more natural.