- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
Explains that the rules of restitutio also apply to those who, when sued, use subterfuge and cunning to prevent an action from being brought against them.
[PAULUS libro duodecimo ad edictum.]
[PAULUS in the twelfth book on the Edict.]
Sed et ad eos pertinet, qui conuenti1 frustrantur et qualibet tergiuersatione et sollertia efficiunt, ne cum ipsis agi possit.2
But this also applies to those who, when sued, practice evasion and by any kind of subterfuge and cunning bring it about that no action can be brought against them.
- 4.6.24.prconuenti
The perfect passive participle (nominative plural) of conuenire (to summon, sue), agreeing with the relative pronoun qui and used adverbially to mean 'when sued' or 'although summoned'.
- 4.6.24.prne cum ipsis agi possit
A clause of purpose or result dependent on efficiunt. agi is the passive infinitive of cum aliquo agere (to bring an action against someone), used here impersonally to mean 'that an action be brought against themselves'.