- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:9.2.42.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-15
It is explained that anyone who destroys deposited testamentary tablets or other instruments so that they cannot be read is liable to the action on deposit, the action for production, and the action under the Lex Aquilia.
[IULIANUS libro quadragensimo octauo digestorum.]
[JULIANUS, in the forty-eighth book of his Digests.]
Qui tabulas testamenti depositas aut alicuius rei instrumentum ita deleuit, ut legi non possit, depositi actione et ad exhibendum1 tenetur, quia corruptam rem restituerit aut exhibuerit. legis quoque Aquiliae actio ex eadem causa competit: corrupisse enim tabulas recte dicitur et qui eas interleuerit.2
Anyone who has so destroyed deposited testamentary tablets or an instrument of any property that it cannot be read, is liable to the action on deposit and the action for production, because he has restored or produced a damaged thing. An action also under the Lex Aquilia lies on the same ground: for even he who has smeared them over is rightly said to have “damaged” the tablets.
- 9.2.42.prad exhibendum
The noun "actione" (ablative) from the preceding phrase is understood, so that the whole refers to the "actio ad exhibendum" (action for production). It is coordinated with "depositi actione" and depends on "tenetur".
- 9.2.42.pret qui eas interleuerit
The conjunction "et" here functions as an adverb meaning "even" or "also". The relative clause "qui eas interleuerit" (he who has smeared them over) is the subject of the passive main verb "dicitur" and the logical subject of the infinitive "corrupisse". The verb "interlinere" means to smear, write between lines, or erase by crossing out.