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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §25.2.24.pr

Choice Between Vindicatio and Condictio for Removed Property

Passage 3699 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian states that for removed property, whether the husband's own or dotal, the husband has both a vindicatio and a condictio against the wife, and has the choice of which action to employ.

[ULPIANUS libro quinto regularum. ] §25.2.24.prOb res amotas uel proprias uiri uel etiam dotales tam uindicatio quam condictio uiro aduersus mulierem competit, et in potestate est, qua uelit actione uti.
[ULPIAN, Rules, book 5.] On account of property removed, whether the husband's own or even dotal, both a vindicatio and a condictio are available to the husband against the wife, and it is in his power which action he wishes to use.

Notes

  1. 25.2.24.prproprias uiri uel etiam dotales — Adjectives agreeing with the preceding accusative feminine plural phrase 'res amotas'. They specify that the property is either the husband's own ('proprias uiri') or dotal ('dotales'), remaining under the government of the preposition 'ob'.
  2. 25.2.24.prqua uelit actione uti — An indirect question clause functioning as the subject of 'in potestate est'. Since the deponent verb 'uti' (to use) governs the ablative case, the interrogative adjective 'qua' and the noun 'actione' are in the ablative. The subjunctive 'uelit' (from 'uolo') is triggered by the indirect question.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §25.2.24.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:25.2.24.pr

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