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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.4.16.pr

Possession by a Slave and the Master's Liability to Produce

Passage 1742 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses the master's liability for production and the applicable lawsuits when a slave holds a thing versus when the slave maliciously disposes of it without the master's knowledge.

[PAULUS libro decimo ad Sabinum. ] §10.4.16.prCum seruus tenet aliquid, dominus ad exhibendum suo nomine tenetur: si autem seruus citra scientiam domini dolo fecit quo minus habeat, uel furti actio uel de dolo malo noxalis serui nomine danda est, ad exhibendum autem utilis nulla constituenda est.
[PAULUS, from the tenth book on Sabinus.] When a slave holds something, the master is liable in his own name for production; but if the slave, without the knowledge of the master, has acted with malicious intent to avoid having it, either an action for theft or one for fraud must be granted as a noxal action on account of the slave, whereas no analogous action for production should be established.

Notes

  1. §10.4.16.prsuo nomine — It indicates that the master is directly liable as a defendant in his own capacity, contrasted with the noxal action on account of the slave (serui nomine) mentioned later in the sentence.
  2. §10.4.16.prdolo fecit quo minus habeat — A construction where dolo facere is followed by quo minus with the subjunctive (habeat), meaning "acted with malicious intent to prevent himself from having (possessing) it."
  3. §10.4.16.prad exhibendum ... utilis — The noun actio (action) is omitted; the adjective utilis refers to actio utilis (an analogous or useful action). Here it is used to mean actio utilis ad exhibendum (an analogous action for production).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.4.16.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.4.16.pr

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