- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:6.1.10.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-12
Discusses where a movable thing should be restored when it is not present, stating that if the defendant is a bona fide possessor, it may be restored either where the thing is or where the trial is held, but at the plaintiff's expense (excluding provisions).
[PAULUS libro uicensimo primo ad edictum.]
[PAULUS, in the twenty-first book on the Edict.]
Si res mobilis petita sit, ubi restitui debeat,1 scilicet si praesens non sit? et non malum est, si bonae fidei possessor sit is cum quo agitur, aut ibi restitui ubi res sit aut ubi agitur: sed sumptibus petitoris, qui extra cibaria2 in iter uel nauigationem faciendi sunt.3
If a movable thing is claimed, where ought it to be restored, obviously if it is not present? And it is not bad, if the person against whom the action is brought is a possessor in good faith, that it be restored either where the thing is or where the action is brought: but at the expense of the plaintiff, which must be incurred for the journey or voyage, excluding provisions.
- 6.1.10.prubi restitui debeat
The subjunctive present 'debeat' can be interpreted as introducing an indirect question with an omitted governing clause (such as 'quaeritur', 'it is asked'), or as a deliberative subjunctive in an independent question expressing duty or deliberation.
- 6.1.10.prextra cibaria
The preposition 'extra' governs the accusative. It indicates a legal limitation: 'provisions' (cibaria) are excluded from the additional travel expenses (iter uel nauigationem) because they represent ordinary living costs that the defendant would have had to bear anyway.
- 6.1.10.prfaciendi sunt
A gerundive in the masculine plural nominative, functioning as the predicate of the relative pronoun 'qui'. The antecedent of 'qui' is 'sumptibus' (the ablative plural of the fourth-declension noun 'sumptus', expense). It expresses the necessity or obligation of the expenses being 'made' or 'incurred'.