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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §3.3.48.pr

Plea and Replication Between Procurators with a Mandate

Passage 531 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

If a special mandate exists for demanding money between two procurators, this section outlines the replication the plaintiff must raise against the defendant's exception of lack of mandate.

[GAIUS libro tertio ad edictum prouinciale. ] §3.3.48.prItaque, si hoc specialiter mandatum est, tunc excipiente eo cum quo agitur 'si non mihi mandatum sit, ut a debitoribus peterem' actorem ita debere replicare 'aut si mihi mandatum est, ut a te peterem'.
[GAIUS in the third book on the provincial edict.] Therefore, if this has been specially mandated, then, when the person with whom the action is brought raises the exception 'unless mandate has been given to me to demand from the debtors', the plaintiff must reply thus: 'or if mandate has been given to me to demand from you'.

Notes

  1. §3.3.48.preo cum quo agitur — Literally 'the person with whom the action is conducted', which is a standard technical expression for the defendant in Roman legal procedure. It is in the ablative case to form an ablative absolute construction with the present participle excipiente.
  2. §3.3.48.practorem ita debere replicare — An accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction, where actorem is the subject accusative of the infinitive debere. It expresses the jurist's formulation of the procedural step or obligation required of the plaintiff.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §3.3.48.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.3.48.pr

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