- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-09
Gaius explains the proconsul's provision of an action on the facts against someone who fraudulently alienates property to substitute a more disadvantageous adversary in a trial.
[GAIUS libro quarto ad edictum prouinciale.]
[GAIUS, On the Provincial Edict, Book IV]
Omnibus modis proconsul id agit, ne cuius1 deterior causa fiat ex alieno facto, et cum intellegeret iudiciorum exitum interdum duriorem nobis constitui opposito nobis alio aduersario, in eam quoque rem prospexit, ut si quis alienando rem alium nobis aduersarium suo loco substituerit idque data opera in fraudem nostram fecerit, tanti nobis in factum actione teneatur, quanti nostra intersit2 alium aduersarium nos non habuisse.
In every way the proconsul takes care that no one’s legal position should be made worse by the act of another; and, since he understood that the outcome of trials is sometimes made more difficult for us when another adversary is set up against us, he also made provision for this case, so that if anyone, by alienating a property, substitutes another adversary in his place for us, and does so deliberately to defraud us, he shall be liable to us in an action on the facts for as much as it was in our interest not to have had another adversary.
Itaque si alterius prouinciae hominem aut potentiorem nobis3 opposuerit aduersarium, tenebitur:
Therefore, if he sets up against us an adversary who is from another province or who is more powerful than we are, he will be liable:
- 4.7.1.prne cuius
cuius is the genitive singular (possessive genitive) of the indefinite pronoun quis, triggered by the negative conjunction ne, meaning 'lest anyone's' or 'so that no one's', rather than the relative pronoun.
- 4.7.1.prtanti... quanti nostra intersit
tanti is a genitive of value (or price) indicating the measure of liability for teneatur, and the correlative quanti is used with the impersonal verb intersit to denote the measure of interest. The person interested is expressed by the ablative feminine singular of the possessive pronoun nostra.
- 4.7.1.1potentiorem nobis
nobis is an ablative of comparison depending on the comparative adjective potentiorem ('more powerful than us'), referring to a person of higher social or legal standing who might exert undue influence on the court, rather than a dative of relationship ('powerful to us').