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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.8.3.pr

Acquisition by Natural Law of Things Found on the Shore

Passage 151 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that pebbles, gems, and other things found on the shore immediately become the property of the finder by natural law.

[FLORENTINUS institutionum libro sexto. ] §1.8.3.prItem lapilli, gemmae ceteraque, quae in litore inuenimus, iure naturali nostra statim fiunt.
[FLORENTINUS, Institutes, book 6.] Likewise, pebbles, gems, and other things which we find on the shore, immediately become ours by natural law.

Notes

  1. §1.8.3.prquae — Relative pronoun (neuter plural accusative). While it could refer only to the preceding "cetera," contextually it is more natural to take "lapilli, gemmae ceteraque" as a whole as the antecedent. When inanimate objects of different genders are combined, the relative pronoun takes the neuter plural form.
  2. §1.8.3.prnostra — Subject complement of "fiunt." To agree with the subjects of mixed genders—"lapilli" (masculine), "gemmae" (feminine), and "cetera" (neuter)—the neuter plural possessive adjective is used as the complement.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.8.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.8.3.pr

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