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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.3.21.pr

Criteria for Judges and Litigants' Wishes in Land Partition

Passage 1716 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states that in dividing estates, the judge should follow either what is most advantageous for everyone or what the litigants prefer.

[ULPIANUS libro trigensimo ad Sabinum. ] §10.3.21.prIudicem in praediis diuidundis quod omnibus utilissimum est uel quod malint litigatores sequi conuenit.
[ULPIAN, On Sabinus, book XXX.] In dividing estates, it is fitting for the judge to follow what is most useful for all, or what the litigants prefer.

Notes

  1. §10.3.21.prconuenit — The impersonal verb conuenit ("it is fitting / proper") takes an accusative with infinitive construction (with iudicem as the subject accusative and sequi as the infinitive), meaning "it is fitting for the judge to follow...".
  2. §10.3.21.prin praediis diuidundis — A gerundive construction where the noun praediis in the ablative (governed by the preposition in) is modified by the gerundive diuidundis in agreement, meaning "in dividing estates."
  3. §10.3.21.prmalint — The third-person plural present subjunctive of the irregular verb malo ("to prefer"). While the parallel clause uses the indicative est, the subjunctive malint is used to express the potential or subjective preference of the litigants.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.3.21.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.3.21.pr

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