[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo secundo ad edictum. ] §11.1.4.prUoluit praetor adstringere eum qui conuenitur ex sua in iudicio responsione, ut uel confitendo uel mentiendo sese oneret, simul etiam portionis, pro qua quisque heres extitit, ex interrogatione certioretur.
[ULPIANUS, from the twenty-second book on the Edict.] The praetor wished to bind the person who is sued by his own response in court, so that he might burden himself either by confessing or by lying, and at the same time might also be made certain by the interrogation of the share for which each person stood as heir.
§11.1.4.1Quod ait praetor: 'qui in iure interrogatus responderit' sic accipiendum est apud magistratus populi Romani uel praesides prouinciarum uel alios iudices: ius enim eum solum locum esse, ubi iuris dicendi uel iudicandi gratia consistat, uel si domi uel itinere hoc agat.
What the praetor says: "who, having been interrogated in court, has answered" is to be understood as being before the magistrates of the Roman people, or the governors of the provinces, or other judges; for "court" is only that place where they stand for the purpose of administering justice or judging, even if they do this at home or on a journey.