- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.3.6.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
Gaius explains that having a fruitless action due to an opponent's insolvency is equivalent to having no action at all.
[GAIUS libro quarto ad edictum prouinciale.]
[GAIUS libro quarto ad edictum prouinciale.]
Nam is nullam uidetur actionem habere, cui propter inopiam aduersarii inanis actio est.1
For he is deemed to have no action, for whom, on account of the lack of means of his opponent, the action is fruitless.
- 4.3.6.pris nullam uidetur actionem habere, cui... inanis actio est
The demonstrative is serves as the antecedent to the relative clause introduced by the dative relative pronoun cui. The clause cui... inanis actio est (literally, 'to whom there is an empty action') employs the dative of possession, meaning 'one who has a fruitless action.' The main verb uidetur is used personally with the subject is and the infinitive habere, meaning 'is deemed to have.'