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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.22.1.pr

The Principal Duties and Activities of Assessors

Passage 234 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus enumerates all the duties of an assessor, through which students of law perform their roles, listing specific areas of activity such as judicial inquiries, edicts, and decrees.

[PAULUS libro singulari de officio adsessorum. ] §1.22.1.prOmne officium adsessoris, quo iuris studiosi partibus suis funguntur, in his fere causis constat: in cognitionibus postulationibus libellis edictis decretis epistulis.
[PAULUS, On the Office of Assessors, Single Book.] All the duties of an assessor, by which students of law perform their parts, consist roughly of these matters: judicial inquiries, petitions, memorials, edicts, decrees, and letters.

Notes

  1. §1.22.1.prquo — An ablative relative pronoun whose antecedent is the neuter singular noun officium. Since the verb funguntur in the relative clause already governs the ablative phrase partibus suis, this quo does not depend on the government of fungi, but functions as an ablative of means ("by/through which").
  2. §1.22.1.priuris studiosi — A nominative plural noun phrase functioning as the subject of the relative clause. Meaning "those who are devoted to law (iuris, genitive)", it refers to law students or legal experts. iuris is an objective genitive dependent on the nominalized adjective studiosi.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.22.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.22.1.pr

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