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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §37.1.9.pr

Petition Period for Posterior Persons Pending Prior Claims

Passage 5718 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that if there are multiple degrees for admitting the possession of goods, the period for petitioning does not run for a posterior person as long as it is uncertain whether the prior person has petitioned.

[POMPONIUS libro tertio ad Sabinum. ] §37.1.9.prSi plures gradus sint possessionis admittendae, quamdiu incertum sit petierit nec ne prior, posteriori diem non procedere constat.
[POMPONIUS, book 3 on Sabinus.]\n\nIf there are several degrees of possession to be admitted, it is established that as long as it is uncertain whether or not the prior person has petitioned, the period does not run for the posterior person.

Notes

  1. §37.1.9.prpossessionis admittendae — The gerundive admittendae agrees with the noun possessionis (possession of goods), forming a genitive phrase "of possession to be admitted" which modifies plures gradus.
  2. §37.1.9.prpetierit nec ne — An indirect alternative question clause ("whether or not [the prior person] has petitioned") depending on the impersonal incertum sit, with petierit in the perfect subjunctive and prior as its subject.
  3. §37.1.9.prdiem non procedere — An accusative-with-infinitive clause serving as the subject of the impersonal verb constat (it is established). Here, diem (accusative) refers not to a single day but to the "period/term" allowed for petitioning, and procedere means to run or start counting.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §37.1.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:37.1.9.pr

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