- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
Describes how edicts of summons issued by a predecessor are counted by their successor, and the custom where the successor issues one additional edict even if the required number was already completed by the predecessor.
[IDEM libro singulari de officio adsessorum.]
[THE SAME, in his single book On the Office of Assessors.]
Edictum, quod ab antecessore datum est, in numero trium edictorum connumerari debet. plane licet omnis ab antecessore numerus finitus sit,1 solet successor unum edictum2 dare.
An edict which has been issued by a predecessor must be counted in the number of the three edicts. Clearly, even if the entire number has been completed by the predecessor, the successor is accustomed to issue one edict.
- 5.1.55.prlicet omnis ab antecessore numerus finitus sit
The conjunction licet takes the subjunctive (here perfect subjunctive finitus sit) to introduce a concessive clause ("although," "even if"). omnis numerus ("the entire number") refers to the limit of three edicts mentioned in the previous sentence.
- 5.1.55.predictum
Here, edictum does not refer to the general "edict" (statutory proclamation) issued by a magistrate, but rather to an individual "summons" or "call to court" issued to a party in judicial proceedings.