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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.4.15.pr

Justification of Disadvantage Incurred by One's Own Fault

Passage 4529 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states the legal principle that it is not unjust for individuals to suffer a disadvantage when it is brought about through their own fault.

[IDEM libro septimo decimo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §29.4.15.prNec id iniquum est, cum ex suo quisque uitio hoc incommodo adficiatur.
[THE SAME in the seventeenth book on the Provincial Edict.] And this is not unjust, since each person is affected by this disadvantage through his own fault.

Notes

  1. §29.4.15.prcum — Takes the subjunctive adficiatur to express cause or reason.
  2. §29.4.15.prhoc incommodo adficiatur — The passive of the transitive verb adficere is combined with the ablative of means or cause hoc incommodo to mean "is affected by this disadvantage."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.4.15.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.4.15.pr

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