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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §12.5.5.pr

Recovery of Money Taken to Conceal a Slave's Theft

Passage 1971 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Proculus states that if money is received from a slave in exchange for not reporting a theft committed by him, that money can be recovered regardless of whether the theft was actually reported.

[IULIANUS libro tertio ad Urseium Ferocem. ] §12.5.5.prSi a seruo meo pecuniam quis accepisset, ne furtum ab eo factum indicaret, siue indicasset siue non, repetitionem fore eius pecuniae Proculus respondit.
[JULIAN, Third Book on Urseius Ferox.] If someone had received money from my slave so that he would not report a theft committed by him, whether he reported it or not, Proculus replied that there would be a recovery of that money.

Notes

  1. §12.5.5.prrepetitionem fore — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction dependent on the main verb `respondit`. `repetitionem` is the subject accusative, and `fore` (the contracted form of `futurum esse`, future infinitive) is the verb, meaning "that there would be a recovery".
  2. §12.5.5.prab eo — The pronoun `eo` refers to the preceding `seruo meo` (my slave). The preposition `ab` with the ablative indicates the agent of the perfect participle `factum` (modifying `furtum`, "the theft committed").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §12.5.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:12.5.5.pr

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