- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
- Translation
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.6.20.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
The author argues that a utilis action should not be granted to a buyer captured by the enemy, as it would be unjust to deprive the owner of what has not been lost through usucapion.
[IDEM libro tertio decimo quaestionum.]
[IDEM libro tertio decimo quaestionum.]
Nec utilem actionem ei tribui oportet, cum sit iniquissimum auferre domino,1 quod usus2 non abstulit: neque enim intellegitur amissum, quod ablatum alteri3 non est.
Nor is it proper that a utilis action be granted to him, since it is most unjust to take away from the owner what long-term use has not taken away; for that which has not been taken away from another is not understood to have been lost.
- 4.6.20.prdomino
A dative of separation used with the verb auferre ('to take away'), indicating the person from whom something is taken (the owner).
- 4.6.20.prusus
Here, it refers not merely to 'use' but to usucapion (usucapio), i.e., acquisition of ownership by long-term use.
- 4.6.20.pralteri
A dative of separation used with the perfect passive participle ablatum, meaning 'taken away from another'.