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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.4.6.pr

Action for Production of Joined Property and Beams

Passage 1732 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paul explains that while an action for production can be used to detach a gem or statuette merged with another's property, it cannot be used for a beam joined to a building due to the prohibition of detachment under the Law of the Twelve Tables; instead, an action for double value is available.

[PAULUS libro quarto decimo ad Sabinum. ] §10.4.6.prGemma inclusa auro alieno uel sigillum candelabro uindicari non potest, sed ut excludatur, ad exhibendum agi potest: aliter atque in tigno iuncto aedibus, de quo nec ad exhibendum agi potest, quia lex duodecim tabularum solui uetaret: sed actione de tigno iuncto ex eadem lege in duplum agitur.
[Paul in the fourteenth book on Sabinus.] A gem embedded in another's gold or a statuette attached to a candelabrum cannot be claimed by vindicatio, but in order that it may be detached, an action for production can be brought. It is otherwise in the case of a beam joined to a building, concerning which not even an action for production can be brought, because the Law of the Twelve Tables forbade it to be detached; but by the action on a joined beam under the same law, an action is brought for double the value.

Notes

  1. 10.4.6.prexcludatur — The third-person singular present subjunctive passive of the verb excludo (to detach, remove). It stands within the purpose clause introduced by ut, referring to the detachment of the gem from the gold.
  2. 10.4.6.praliter atque — A comparative expression meaning 'otherwise than' or 'differently from'. Here it marks the contrast in legal treatment between the previous examples (gem and statuette) and the following case of a beam joined to a building (tignum iunctum).
  3. 10.4.6.prsolui — The present passive infinitive of the verb soluo (to loosen, detach, dismantle). It functions as the complementary infinitive to the verb of forbidding uetaret, referring to the detachment of the incorporated beam from the building.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.4.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.4.6.pr

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