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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §12.5.6.pr

Views on Recovering Property Held on an Unlawful Ground

Passage 1972 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The passage states that Sabinus and Celsus support the opinion of the ancient jurists, who held that what is held on an unlawful ground can be recovered through a condictio.

[ULPIANUS libro octauo decimo ad Sabinum. ] §12.5.6.prPerpetuo Sabinus probauit ueterum opinionem existimantium id, quod ex iniusta causa apud aliquem sit, posse condici: in qua sententia etiam Celsus est.
[ULPIAN, Eighteenth Book on Sabinus.] Sabinus consistently approved the opinion of the ancients who held that what is in someone's possession on an unjust ground can be recovered by a condictio; Celsus also is of this opinion.

Notes

  1. §12.5.6.prexistimantium — Present participle in the genitive plural, modifying ueterum (the ancients) which is used substantively. It governs the indirect statement (accusative with infinitive) id... posse condici, where id is the subject accusative and posse is the infinitive.
  2. §12.5.6.prcondici — Present passive infinitive of condicere (to claim back, to bring a condictio). It functions as the complementary infinitive to posse.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §12.5.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:12.5.6.pr

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