- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:6.1.16.pr-6.1.16.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-12
Discusses why a judgment remains necessary even if the claimed slave dies, due to fruits and stipulations, and addresses whether sending a claimed ship during the sailing season constitutes fault.
[PAULUS libro uicensimo primo ad edictum.]
[PAULUS, in the twenty-first book on the Edict.]
Utique autem etiam mortuo homine1 necessaria est sententia propter fructus et partus et stipulationem de euictione: non enim post litem contestatam utique et fatum2 possessor praestare debet.
However, even if the slave has died, a judgment is in any case necessary because of the fruits, the offspring, and the stipulation against eviction; for a possessor is not indeed bound to make good even natural death (fate) after the joinder of issue.
Culpa non intellegitur, si nauem petitam tempore nauigationis trans mare misit, licet ea perierit: nisi si3 minus idoneis hominibus eam commisit.
Fault is not understood to exist if he sent the claimed ship across the sea during the sailing season, even though it perished; unless he entrusted it to persons who were not sufficiently competent.
- 6.1.16.prmortuo homine
The word 'homo' (man) here refers specifically to a 'slave' (seruus), continuing the discussion on the death of a slave from the previous fragment (D. 6.1.15.3). 'mortuo homine' is an ablative absolute expressing concession ('even if the slave has died').
- 6.1.16.prfatum
The term 'fatum' (fate) in a legal context refers to natural death or loss due to force majeure (vis maior). It indicates that even after the joinder of issue (litis contestatio), a possessor is not automatically liable for the loss of the property caused by force majeure.
- 6.1.16.1nisi si
Indicates an exception to the condition. Sending a ship during the sailing season does not in principle constitute fault (culpa), but a limitation is added that fault is exceptionally recognized if the ship was entrusted to incompetent persons (minus idoneis hominibus eam commisit).