- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-12
Ulpianus shows that the 'just cause' grounding the Publician action takes various forms, explaining that delivery as a dowry or on the basis of a judgment qualifies as such.
[ULPIANUS libro sexto decimo ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS on the Edict, book 16.]
Sunt et aliae pleraeque.
There are also many other causes.
Ait praetor: 'ex iusta causa petet.1' qui igitur iustam causam traditionis habet, utitur Publiciana: et non solum emptori bonae fidei competit Publiciana, sed et aliis, ut puta ei cui dotis nomine tradita res est necdum usucapta: est enim iustissima causa, siue aestimata res in dotem data sit siue non.2 item si res ex causa iudicati sit tradita3
The praetor says: ‘he shall claim on the basis of a just cause.’ Therefore, he who has a just cause for delivery uses the Publician action. And the Publician action is available not only to a buyer in good faith, but also to others, for instance, to one to whom a thing was delivered as a dowry and has not yet been acquired by usucapion; for it is a most just cause, whether the appraised thing was given as a dowry or not. Likewise, if a thing has been delivered on the basis of a judgment.
- 6.2.3.1petet
Third-person singular, future active indicative. It expresses a command or permission in the words of the praetor's edict ('he shall claim'). The unexpressed subject is the unspecified claimant who received delivery and lost possession.
- 6.2.3.1siue aestimata res in dotem data sit siue non
A correlative construction 'siue ... siue' (whether ... or). In Roman law, whether a thing given as a dowry (dos) is appraised (res aestimata) or not leads to different legal effects (especially regarding risk), but here it indicates that in either case, the delivery on account of a dowry is recognized as a 'most just cause' (iustissima causa).
- 6.2.3.1item si res ex causa iudicati sit tradita
The apodosis (main clause) corresponding to this conditional clause (si-clause) is omitted. From the preceding context (utitur Publiciana / competit Publiciana), we should supply the meaning 'likewise, if a thing has been delivered on the basis of a judgment, [the Publician action is available]'.