- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.8.37.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
Explains that if an heir makes a claim despite the arbitrator's prohibition of claims between the parties, the penalty is incurred, emphasizing that the purpose of arbitration is to terminate lawsuits, not to delay them.
[CELSUS libro secundo digestorum.]
[CELSUS in his second book of the Digests.]
Quamuis arbiter alterum ab altero petere uetuit,1 si tamen heres petit, poenam committet:2 non enim differendarum litium causa, sed tollendarum ad arbitros itur.3
Although the arbitrator forbade one party to make a claim against the other, yet if the heir makes a claim, he will incur the penalty; for people go to arbitrators not for the purpose of delaying lawsuits, but of putting an end to them.
- 4.8.37.prQuamuis ... uetuit
Although the conjunction 'quamvis' usually requires the subjunctive mood in classical Latin, here it is used with the indicative perfect 'uetuit'. This emphasizes the concession of a factual occurrence.
- 4.8.37.prpoenam committet
A legal expression meaning 'to incur the penalty' or 'to trigger the liability for the stipulated penalty'. The subject is implicitly 'heres' (the heir).
- 4.8.37.pritur
The third-person singular passive of the intransitive verb 'eo' (to go), used impersonally. Literally 'it is gone', meaning 'people go' or 'one repairs to'.
Translated by Gemini 3.5 Flash (published 2026-07-12)
- en retranslated with Gemini 3.5 Flash on 2026-07-13