- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
Dictates that a person absent on public service is not entitled to restitution for a loss that they would have suffered anyway, even if they had not been absent.
[PAULUS libro secundo ad Sabinum.]
[PAULUS, On Sabinus, Book II]
Is, qui rei publicae causa abest, in aliqua re laesus non restituitur, in qua, etiam si rei publicae causa non afuisset, damnum erat passurus.1
He who is absent on public service is not granted restitution for an injury suffered in a matter in which he would have suffered loss even if he had not been absent on public service.
- 4.6.44.prdamnum erat passurus
This is the apodosis of the counterfactual conditional clause etiam si ... non afuisset (subjunctive pluperfect). Instead of the standard subjunctive pluperfect (passus esset), the imperfect indicative of the active future periphrastic conjugation (erat passurus, 'was going to suffer') is used to emphasize the objective certainty or inevitability of the loss.