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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §3.3.12.pr

Compelling a Procurator to Defend in Urgent Cases

Passage 495 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that a procurator must sometimes be compelled to undertake a trial in urgent cases, such as when the principal is absent and the claim might perish over time.

[GAIUS libro tertio ad edictum prouinciale. ] §3.3.12.prSed etiam ex his causis dicitur aliquando cogendum procuratorem iudicium accipere: ueluti si dominus praesens non sit et actor adfirmet tractu temporis futurum ut res pereat.
[GAIUS, in the third book on the Provincial Edict.] But it is also said that, for these reasons, a procurator must sometimes be compelled to accept the trial; for example, if the principal is not present and the plaintiff asserts that, by the passage of time, it will happen that the matter will perish.

Notes

  1. §3.3.12.prcogendum procuratorem — The verb `esse` is omitted after the gerundive `cogendum`, forming an accusative and infinitive construction dependent on `dicitur`. `procuratorem` functions as the object of the impersonal gerundive construction, meaning "the procurator must be compelled."
  2. §3.3.12.prfuturum ut res pereat — The construction `futurum [esse] ut` followed by the subjunctive (`pereat`) serves as a periphrastic future infinitive in indirect speech dependent on `adfirmet`. The subjunctive present `pereat` is used in accordance with the sequence of tenses after `adfirmet`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §3.3.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.3.12.pr

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