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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.10.2.pr

Definition of Furniture as Inanimate Movables

Passage 5124 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Florentinus' supplementary definition of household furniture (supellex), clarifying that it consists of inanimate movable things.

[FLORENTINUS libro undecimo institutionum. ] §33.10.2.prid est res mouentes non animales.
[FLORENTINUS in the eleventh book of the Institutes.]\n\nthat is, movable things that are not animate.

Notes

  1. §33.10.2.prres mouentes — A legal term for "movable things," synonymous with "res mobiles" in classical law. Household furniture is limited to certain types of movables.
  2. §33.10.2.prnon animales — Feminine plural nominative of the adjective "animalis" (animate, living) modifying "res," serves to exclude slaves and beasts of burden (which are animate movables) from the category of household furniture.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.10.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.10.2.pr

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