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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §2.4.13.pr

Summons Restriction for Persons Owed Reverence

Passage 277 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states the general rule that persons to whom reverence is due cannot be summoned to court without an order from the praetor.

[MODESTINUS libro decimo pandectarum. ] §2.4.13.prGeneraliter eas personas, quibus reuerentia praestanda est, sine iussu praetoris in ius uocare non possumus.
[MODESTINUS, in the tenth book of the Pandects.] Generally, we cannot summon to court those persons to whom reverence must be shown, without the order of the praetor.

Notes

  1. §2.4.13.prquibus — A dative plural of the relative pronoun, referring back to `eas personas`. Although used with the gerundive `praestanda`, it functions not as a dative of agent (i.e., those who must show reverence), but as a dative of direction or recipient (i.e., those to whom reverence must be shown). The actual agents of the action (the general public) are omitted in the context.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §2.4.13.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.4.13.pr

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