Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §12.3.1.pr

Assessment Oath and Objective Value of Property

Passage 1940 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that even if the condemnation increases due to the defendant's contumacy and the plaintiff's assessment-oath, the objective value of the thing itself does not increase, but is merely assessed beyond its price as a consequence of the contumacy.

[ULPIANUS libro quinquagesimo primo ad Sabinum. ] §12.3.1.prRem in iudicio deductam non idcirco pluris esse opinamur, quia crescere condemnatio potest ex contumacia non restituentis per iusiurandum in litem: non enim res pluris fit per hoc, sed ex contumacia aestimatur ultra rei pretium.

[ULPIAN, Fifty-First Book on Sabinus.] We do not think that a thing brought to judgment is of greater value for the reason that the condemnation can increase through the assessment-oath from the contumacy of the one who does not restore it; for the thing does not become of greater value through this, but is valued beyond the price of the thing because of the contumacy.

Notes

§12.3.1.prpluris — A genitive of value, used with `esse` to mean "to be of greater value" or "worth more."
§12.3.1.prnon restituentis — Substantive use of the present active participle of `restituere` (to restore) in the genitive singular, acting as "the one who does not restore," depending on `contumacia` (contumacy) as a subjective or possessive genitive.

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