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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.2.6.pr

Rejection of Bidding to Determine Custody of Documents

Passage 1643 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that neither he nor Pomponius approves of resolving the dispute over who keeps the inheritance documents by putting the matter to a bidding.

[ULPIANUS libro nono decimo ad edictum. ] §10.2.6.prNam ad licitationem rem deducere, ut qui licitatione uicit hic habeat instrumenta hereditaria, non placet neque mihi neque Pomponio.
[ULPIANUS, on the Edict, book 19] For to bring the matter to a bidding, so that he who wins the bidding should hold the inheritance documents, is approved of neither by me nor by Pomponius.

Notes

  1. 10.2.6.prad licitationem rem deducere — This entire infinitive phrase functions as the subject of the main verb `non placet`. `rem` (the matter/thing) refers to the issue discussed in the preceding section (10.2.5.pr), namely, which of the co-heirs should keep the documents.
  2. 10.2.6.prut qui licitatione uicit hic habeat — The `ut` clause with the subjunctive `habeat` expresses the purpose or the intended result of bringing the matter to a bidding. Within this clause, the demonstrative pronoun `hic` redundantly resumes and emphasizes the subject of the relative clause `qui licitatione uicit`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.2.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.2.6.pr

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