- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
Paulus explains the procedural requirements for an absent person to be deemed undefended, such as inquiring of their friends, and mentions Labeo's view that this edict also applies to the insane, infants, and municipalities.
[PAULUS libro duodecimo ad edictum.]
[PAULUS in the twelfth book on the Edict.]
Ergo sciendum est non aliter hoc edictum locum habere, quam si1 amici eius interrogati fuerint, an defendant, aut si nemo sit, qui interrogari potest. ita enim absens defendi non uidetur, si actor ultro interpellat nec quisquam defensioni se offerat: eaque testatione complecti oportet.2
Therefore, it should be known that this edict does not apply otherwise than if his friends have been asked whether they will defend him, or if there is no one who can be asked. For in this way, an absent person is deemed not to be defended if the plaintiff of his own accord makes inquiries and no one offers himself for the defense; and these matters ought to be recorded by an attestation.
Sicut igitur damno eos adfici non uult,3 ita lucrum facere non patitur.
Just as, therefore, [the praetor] does not wish them to be affected by loss, so he does not allow them to make a profit.
Quod edictum etiam ad furiosos et infantes et ciuitates pertinere Labeo ait.
Labeo says that this edict also applies to the insane, infants, and municipalities.
- 4.6.22.prnon aliter ... quam si
A strong limiting construction meaning "not otherwise ... than if," which strictly limits the conditions under which this edict applies.
- 4.6.22.preaque testatione complecti oportet
The infinitive complecti of the deponent verb complector is used here in a passive sense ("to be embraced, recorded"), forming an accusative-with-infinitive construction where the neuter plural ea ("these things") acts as the subject of the infinitive.
- 4.6.22.1non uult
The subject of the verb uult (and the subsequent patitur) is omitted but refers from the context to the "praetor" (the magistrate) who administers the edict and relief.