- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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It explains that a legatee of a peculium cannot claim it as a single unit like a flock, but must instead claim the individual items that comprise it.
[IDEM libro septuagensimo octauo digestorum.]
[THE SAME in the seventy-eighth book of the Digests.]
Uindicatio non ut gregis, ita et peculii recepta est,1 sed res singulas is, cui legatum peculium est, petet.
An action for recovery is not admitted for a peculium in the same way as it is for a flock; but he to whom a peculium has been bequeathed must claim the individual things.
- 6.1.56.prnon ut gregis, ita et peculii recepta est
The negative particle 'non' negates the entire correlative construction 'ut... ita et...' (just as... so also...). Both 'gregis' and 'peculii' are genitives (objective genitives) depending on the noun 'uindicatio'. This establishes a contrast: while an action for the recovery of an entire flock (uindicatio gregis) is legally admitted, an action for the recovery of an entire peculium (uindicatio peculii) as a single unit is not.