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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.1.1.pr

Nature of the Boundary Action as a Personal Action

Passage 1625 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus states that the action for regulating boundaries is a personal action, even though it practically functions in place of a recovery of property (a real action).

[PAULUS libro uicensimo tertio ad edictum. ] §10.1.1.prFinium regundorum actio in personam est, licet pro uindicatione rei est.
[PAULUS, Book XXIII on the Edict.] The action for establishing boundaries is a personal action, although it is in place of the recovery of a thing.

Notes

  1. 10.1.1.prFinium regundorum — The genitive plural noun `finium` (of boundaries) agrees with the gerundive `regundorum` (from `rego`, to regulate). Together they form a gerundive construction expressing 'the regulation of boundaries', modifying `actio` (action).
  2. 10.1.1.prlicet — The concessive conjunction `licet` (although), which classically takes the subjunctive, is here construed with the indicative `est`. This syntactic feature is common in juristic and later Latin.
  3. 10.1.1.prpro uindicatione rei — The preposition `pro` (in place of, as equivalent to) governs the ablative `uindicatione`. `uindicatio rei` (recovery of a thing) represents the typical real action (*actio in rem*), and this phrase indicates that while the boundary action is technically in personam, it functions practically as a real action.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.1.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.1.1.pr

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