- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-15
Defines that in all noxal actions, the "knowledge" of the master is understood as failing to forbid a wrong when able to do so, distinguishing between actively instigating and merely permitting the wrongdoing.
[IDEM libro tertio ad edictum.]
[THE SAME, Book 3 on the Edict]
In omnibus noxalibus actionibus, ubicumque scientia exigitur domini, sic accipienda est,1 si, cum prohibere posset,2 non prohibuit: aliud est enim auctorem esse seruo delinquenti, aliud pati delinquere.
In all noxal actions, wherever the knowledge of the master is required, it must be understood in this way: if, although he was able to forbid it, he did not forbid it; for it is one thing to be an instigator to a defaulting slave, another to permit him to do wrong.
- 9.4.3.prsic accipienda est
The subject of the gerundive predicate accipienda est is the feminine noun scientia (knowledge) from the preceding ubicumque clause. It literally means "the knowledge is to be understood in this way."
- 9.4.3.prcum prohibere posset
The conjunction cum is used here with the subjunctive imperfect posset to express either a concessive relation ("although he was able to forbid") or a circumstantial relation ("since/when he was able to forbid").