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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §11.7.7.pr-11.7.7.1

Actions for Unauthorized Burial in Land or Sarcophagi

Passage 1810 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage rules on the legal remedies (action on the facts and analogous action on the facts) to compel either the removal of a corpse or the payment of the land's value when a dead body is unauthorizedly brought into another's land or an unused stone sarcophagus.

[GAIUS libro nono decimo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §11.7.7.prIs qui intulit mortuum in alienum locum, aut tollere id quod intulit aut loci pretium praestare cogitur per in factum actionem, quam tam heredi quam in heredem competit et perpetua est.
[GAIUS in the nineteenth book on the Provincial Edict.] He who has brought a dead person into another's place is compelled, by an action on the facts, either to remove what he brought in or to pay the price of the place; this action is available both to an heir and against an heir, and is perpetual.
§11.7.7.1Aduersus eum, qui in alterius arcam lapideam, in qua adhuc mortuus non erit conditus, mortuum intulerit, utilem actionem in factum proconsul dat, quia non proprie uel in sepulchrum uel in locum alterius intulisse dici potest.
Against one who has brought a dead person into another's stone sarcophagus in which a dead person has not yet been buried, the proconsul grants an analogous action on the facts, because he cannot strictly be said to have brought it either into a tomb or into another's place.

Notes

  1. §11.7.7.prquam tam heredi quam in heredem competit — The relative pronoun `quam` refers back to `actionem`. The verb `competere` takes the dative `heredi` to indicate that the action is available to the heir of the plaintiff (active transmissibility), and the prepositional phrase `in heredem` to indicate that the action lies against the heir of the defendant (passive transmissibility).
  2. §11.7.7.1utilem actionem in factum — Since a stone sarcophagus in which no one has yet been buried is not legally considered a 'tomb' (sepulchrum) or a 'religious place', the standard action on the facts (actio in factum) cannot be directly applied. Therefore, the proconsul grants an 'analogous' or 'useful' action on the facts (actio in factum utilis) by extending the legal remedy to a similar case of infringement.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §11.7.7.pr-11.7.7.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:11.7.7.pr-11.7.7.1

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