- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
The passage explains that anyone summoned from another jurisdiction must appear before the praetor, as evaluating the jurisdiction is the praetor's duty. Even those with the privilege of recalling a case to their home court must still appear in response to the summons to assert that privilege.
[ULPIANUS libro quinto ad edictum.] Si quis ex aliena iurisdictione ad praetorem uocetur, debet uenire, ut et Pomponius et Uindius scripserunt: praetoris est enim aestimare, an sua sit iurisdictio, uocati1 autem non contemnere auctoritatem praetoris: nam et legati ceterique qui reuocandi domum ius2 habent in ea sunt causa, ut in ius uocati ueniant priuilegia sua allegaturi.3
[ULPIANUS in the fifth book on the Edict.] If anyone is summoned before the praetor from another jurisdiction, he must appear, as both Pomponius and Vindius have written; for it is the praetor’s duty to determine whether he has jurisdiction, and it is the duty of the person summoned not to disregard the authority of the praetor. For even envoys and others who have the right of recall to their home jurisdiction are in such a position that, when summoned to court, they must appear in order to allege their privileges.
- 5.1.5.prpraetoris ... uocati
praetoris and uocati are genitives of duty or characteristic used with the copula est (which is omitted after uocati), meaning 'it is the duty of...'. Note that uocati is the genitive singular of uocatus (the summoned person), not the nominative plural.
- 5.1.5.prreuocandi domum ius
Literally 'the right of recalling home'. It refers to the privilege (ius domum reuocandi) of envoys and other officials from other states or cities to have a lawsuit transferred to their home jurisdiction (forum originis) when they are sued in Rome.
- 5.1.5.prallegaturi
Nominative plural of the future active participle allegaturus (about to allege/plead). It agrees with the subject of the ut-clause (legati ceterique) and expresses purpose ('in order to allege').