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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.1.10.pr-1.1.10.2

Definitions of Justice, the Precepts of Law, and Jurisprudence

Passage 10 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian's definitions of justice, the three precepts of law, and jurisprudence.

[ULPIANUS libro primo regularum. ] §1.1.10.prIustitia est constans et perpetua uoluntas ius suum cuique tribuendi.
[ULPIAN in the first book of Rules.] Justice is the constant and perpetual will to render to each his own right.
§1.1.10.1Iuris praecepta sunt haec: honeste uiuere, alterum non laedere, suum cuique tribuere.
The precepts of law are these: to live honestly, not to harm another, to render to each his own.
§1.1.10.2Iuris prudentia est diuinarum atque humanarum rerum notitia, iusti atque iniusti scientia.
Jurisprudence is the knowledge of things divine and human, the science of the just and the unjust.

Notes

  1. 1.1.10.prtribuendi — Genitive of the gerund of tribuere (to render, assign), modifying the noun uoluntas (will). It takes cuique (dative) and ius suum (accusative) as its objects.
  2. 1.1.10.1haec — Demonstrative pronoun in the neuter plural nominative. It forward-refers to (anticipates) the three nominative infinitive phrases that follow: honeste uiuere, alterum non laedere, and suum cuique tribuere.
  3. 1.1.10.2diuinarum atque humanarum rerum — Genitive noun phrase. It functions as an objective genitive modifying the noun notitia (knowledge), meaning "knowledge of (concerning) things divine and human."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.1.10.pr-1.1.10.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.1.10.pr-1.1.10.2

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