- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:9.2.44.pr-9.2.44.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-15
This section states that even the slightest fault is taken into account under the Lex Aquilia, and that there is no doubt about the master's liability if a slave commits damage with the master's knowledge.
[ULPIANUS libro quadragensimo secundo ad Sabinum.]
[ULPIANUS, in the forty-second book on Sabinus.]
In lege Aquilia et leuissima culpa uenit.1
Under the Lex Aquilia, even the slightest fault is taken into account.
Quotiens sciente domino2 seruus uulnerat uel occidit, Aquilia3 dominum teneri dubium non est.
Whenever a slave wounds or kills with the knowledge of his master, there is no doubt that the master is held liable under the Lex Aquilia.
- 9.2.44.pruenit
Third-person singular present of the intransitive verb uenio ("to come"). Here it is used in a specific legal sense meaning "to be taken into account" or "to be included".
- 9.2.44.1sciente domino
An ablative absolute construction consisting of the present participle sciente and the noun domino, meaning "with the knowledge of the master" or "while the master knows".
- 9.2.44.1Aquilia
Ablative feminine singular adjective. The noun actione ("by the action") or lege ("under the law") is understood as omitted, modifying the passive infinitive teneri (the main verb of the accusative-with-infinitive clause) to mean "under the Lex Aquilia" or "by the Aquilian action".