Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §19.2.43.pr

Election of Actions for Injury to Leased Slaves

Passage 2864 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus states that if a person injures a leased slave, both an action under the Lex Aquilia and an action on the lease arise, but the plaintiff must choose one, a restriction enforced by the office of the judge.

[IDEM libro uicesimo primo ad edictum. ] §19.2.43.prSi uulneraueris seruum tibi locatum, eiusdem uulneris nomine legis Aquiliae et ex locato actio est, sed alterutra contentus actor esse debet, idque officio iudicis continetur, apud quem ex locato agetur.

[THE SAME, from the twenty-first book on the Edict.] If you should injure a slave leased to you, on account of that same injury there is both an action under the Lex Aquilia and an action on the lease; but the plaintiff must be content with either one of them, and this is encompassed within the duty of the judge before whom the action on the lease will be brought.

Notes

19.2.43.prlegis Aquiliae — The genitive legis Aquiliae shares (or has omitted) the noun actio from the subsequent phrase ex locato actio, forming a parallel structure: legis Aquiliae (actio) et ex locato actio.
19.2.43.pralterutra — This is an ablative of means/cause required by the adjective contentus (satisfied with), in the feminine singular. The feminine noun actione (with the action) is understood to be omitted.
19.2.43.prapud quem ex locato agetur — The antecedent of the relative pronoun quem is iudicis. The verb agetur is the third-person singular future passive of agere, used either impersonally (action will be brought) or taking ex locato (action on the lease) as its subject.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §19.2.43.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:19.2.43.pr

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