- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.3.78.pr-3.3.78.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-05
This passage states that a defense aimed at stalling the plaintiff and preventing a resolution cannot be deemed proper, and clarifies the validity of a procurator's action when claiming only one of two designated things.
[AFRICANUS libro sexto quaestionum.]
[AFRICANUS, in the sixth book of Questions.]
Et ideo non potest uideri boni uiri arbitratu litem defendere is, qui actorem frustrando efficiat, ne ad exitum controuersia deducatur.1
And therefore, a person who, by frustrating the plaintiff, brings it about that the controversy is not brought to a conclusion, cannot be deemed to defend the suit in accordance with the judgment of a good man.
Ad duas res petendas2 procurator datus si unam rem petat, exceptione non excluditur et rem in iudicium deducit.
If a procurator appointed to claim two things claims only one, he is not barred by an objection, and he brings that matter to trial.
- 3.3.78.prefficiat, ne ... deducatur
The verb efficere (to bring about, effect) takes an object clause introduced by ne with the subjunctive (deducatur) to express a negative result (to bring about that ... not). Here, this construction is nested inside the relative clause of characteristic with the subjunctive efficiat.
- 3.3.78.1Ad duas res petendas
The preposition ad followed by the accusative noun res and the agreeing gerundive petendas expresses purpose ('for the purpose of claiming two things'). This entire phrase modifies procurator datus (an appointed procurator).