- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-15
Gaius explains that an action can be brought under the law when a free person is injured by an animal, clarifying that the assessment of damages excludes physical deformity but includes medical expenses and lost services.
[GAIUS libro septimo ad edictum prouinciale.]
[GAIUS, from the seventh book on the Provincial Edict.]
Ex hac lege iam non dubitatur etiam liberarum personarum nomine1 agi posse, forte si patrem familias aut filium familias uulnerauerit quadrupes: scilicet ut non deformitatis ratio habeatur, cum liberum corpus aestimationem non recipiat, sed impensarum2 in curationem factarum et operarum amissarum quasque amissurus quis esset3 inutilis factus.
Under this law, it is no longer doubted that an action can be brought also in the name of free persons, for instance, if a four-legged animal has injured a paterfamilias or a filiusfamilias; of course, not so that account is taken of deformity—since a free body does not admit of valuation—but of the expenses incurred for treatment, of lost services, and of those which a person would lose by being rendered incapacitated.
- 9.1.3.prliberarum personarum nomine
"In the name of free persons" or "on account of free persons." While in the case of slaves, the owner sues based on ownership, a free body cannot be owned by another; hence, this refers to the possibility of bringing an action for damages suffered by the free person themselves (or their paterfamilias).
- 9.1.3.prut non deformitatis ratio habeatur ... sed impensarum
A subjunctive clause expressing purpose/result. After sed, ratio habeatur is omitted. The genitives impensarum (of expenses) and operarum (of services) depend on the omitted noun ratio.
- 9.1.3.prquasque amissurus quis esset
The relative pronoun quas (whose antecedent is operarum) with the enclitic conjunction -que. amissurus esset is a subjunctive active future periphrastic (imperfect), expressing a subjective or hypothetical future event ("which one would lose") within the subordinate ut clause.