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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §30.1.59.pr

Absence of Heir Fault in Fire Destruction of Bequeathed House

Passage 4655 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian adds a condition to Papinian's response in the preceding fragment, specifying that the fire must not have occurred due to the fault of the heir.

[ULPIANUS libro trigesimo tertio ad edictum. ] §30.1.59.prsi modo nulla culpa eius incendium contigisset.
[ULPIAN, Book 33 on the Edict.] provided only that the fire had not occurred through any fault of his.

Notes

  1. 30.1.59.prsi modo — A restrictive conditional conjunction meaning 'provided only that'. Here, it adds a requirement of the absence of fault on the part of the heir to the application of the rule regarding reconstruction and deduction in the preceding fragment of Papinian (§30.1.58.pr).
  2. 30.1.59.prnulla culpa eius — An ablative absolute (or ablative of cause) meaning 'with no fault of his'. The genitive pronoun eius refers to the 'heir' (heredis) mentioned in the preceding fragment.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §30.1.59.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:30.1.59.pr

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