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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.5.1.pr

Tripartite Division of Law into Persons, Things, and Actions

Passage 65 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Gaius presents the tripartite division of law, stating that all law relates either to persons, to things, or to actions.

[GAIUS libro primo institutionum. ] §1.5.1.prOmne ius quo utimur uel ad personas pertinet uel ad res uel ad actiones.
[GAIUS, Institutes, book 1] All the law we use relates either to persons or to things or to actions.

Notes

  1. §1.5.1.prquo utimur — The relative pronoun quo serves as the object of the verb utor (to use), which takes the ablative case. Its antecedent is the main clause's subject, omne ius.
  2. §1.5.1.pruel ad personas pertinet uel ad res uel ad actiones — The correlative conjunctions uel ... uel ... uel ... (either ... or ... or ...) coordinate the three prepositional phrases, all of which depend on the verb pertinet (relates).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.5.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.5.1.pr

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