- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.1.58.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
The passage describes the cases where a trial is dissolved, namely by the prohibition of the magistrate who ordered it or of a superior magistrate, or if the judge himself acquires the same power as the magistrate.
[PAULUS libro tertio decimo ad Sabinum.]
[PAULUS, on Sabinus, Book XIII.]
Iudicium soluitur uetante eo1 qui iudicare iusserat, uel etiam eo qui maius imperium in eadem iurisdictione habet, uel etiam si ipse iudex eiusdem imperii esse2 coeperit, cuius erat qui iudicare iussit.3
A trial is dissolved by the prohibition of the person who had ordered the trial, or even by the prohibition of a person who has greater power (imperium) in the same jurisdiction, or even if the judge himself begins to be of the same power (imperium) as was the person who ordered the trial.
- 5.1.58.pruetante eo
uetante is the present active participle ablative singular of ueto (to forbid), forming an ablative absolute construction with eo. This participle is also understood as being supplied for the second pronoun in uel etiam eo [uetante] qui maius...
- 5.1.58.preiusdem imperii esse
In the conditional clause introduced by si, the genitive phrase eiusdem imperii acts as a genitive of quality serving as the complement of the verb esse, meaning 'to possess or belong to the same power (imperium)'.
- 5.1.58.prcuius erat qui iudicare iussit
The relative pronoun cuius is in the genitive case, agreeing with the antecedent imperii. Within this relative clause, the subject of erat is the substantivized clause qui iudicare iussit (the person who ordered the trial), literally meaning 'of which [power] was the person who ordered the trial'.