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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.4.10.pr

Preserving Interest upon Loss of Choice and Heir Exemption

Passage 1736 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

On preserving the claimant's interest when a trial is delayed beyond the choice period, and acquitting the heir if the failure to produce was not his fault.

[PAULUS libro uicensimo sexto ad edictum. ] §10.4.10.prSi optione intra certum tempus data iudicium in id tempus extractum est, quo frustra exhibetur, utilitas petitoris conseruetur: quod si per heredem non stetit quo minus exhiberet tempore iudicii accipiendi, absoluendus est heres.
[PAULUS libro uicensimo sexto ad edictum.]\n\nIf, a choice having been given within a certain time, the trial was dragged out to such a time when the object is produced in vain, the interest of the claimant should be preserved; but if it was not due to the heir that he did not produce it at the time of accepting the trial, the heir must be acquitted.

Notes

  1. §10.4.10.prper heredem non stetit quo minus exhiberet — A negative past-tense form of the idiomatic expression "per aliquem stat quo minus + subjunctive" (it is someone's fault that... not / someone prevents...). Here, it means "it was not due to the heir that he did not produce," indicating that the heir is not responsible for the failure to produce.
  2. §10.4.10.prtempore iudicii accipiendi — A gerundive construction where "iudicii accipiendi" (of accepting the trial) in the genitive modifies "tempore" (at the time / in the period). In legal terminology, it refers to the stage of the joinder of issue (litis contestatio).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.4.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.4.10.pr

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