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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §25.2.26.pr

Action for Removed Property as Essentially a Condictio

Passage 3701 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A citation from Gaius stating that the action for property removed (actio rerum amotarum) is essentially a condictio.

[GAIUS libro quarto ad edictum prouinciale. ] §25.2.26.prRerum amotarum actio condictio est.
[GAIUS, On the Provincial Edict, book 4.] The action for property removed is a condictio.

Notes

  1. §25.2.26.prRerum amotarum actio — Meaning 'the action for property removed'. It functions as the subject, and in connection with the previous fragment 25 (Marcian), clarifies that this action falls under the legal category of personal recovery.
  2. §25.2.26.prcondictio — A strict personal action (actio in personam) in Roman law for recovering a specific thing or a certain sum of money. Here it is used as a predicate, declaring that the action for property removed essentially belongs to this category.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §25.2.26.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:25.2.26.pr

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