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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §3.3.16.pr

Right to Change Agents or Personally Defend Before Issue

Passage 499 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Provides for the free power of the principal to either change their agent or accept the trial themselves before the joinder of issue.

[PAULUS libro octauo ad edictum. ] §3.3.16.prAnte litem contestatam libera potestas est uel mutandi procuratoris uel ipsi domino iudicium accipiendi.
[PAULUS, in the eighth book on the Edict.] Before the joinder of issue, the principal himself has the free power either of changing his agent or of accepting the trial himself.

Notes

  1. §3.3.16.pripsi domino — Dative of possession, which goes with potestas est to form the construction "the principal himself has the power...".
  2. §3.3.16.prmutandi procuratoris uel ipsi domino iudicium accipiendi — Through uel ... uel ..., two different grammatical forms—the gerundive construction mutandi procuratoris and the gerund construction iudicium accipiendi (genitive gerund taking a direct object)—are coordinated, both functioning as genitives modifying the noun potestas.

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