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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §37.12.2.pr

Denial of the Favio-Calvisian Actions to Ascendants

Passage 5846 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses the limits of equating an ascendant with a patron, explaining that the Fauian or Caluisian action is not granted to an ascendant because it is inequitable to restrict the freedom of freeborn persons to alienate their property.

[GAIUS libro quinto decimo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §37.12.2.prNon usque adeo exaequandus est patrono parens, ut etiam Fauiana aut Caluisiana actio ei detur, quia iniquum est ingenuis hominibus non esse liberam rerum suarum alienationem.
[GAIUS, in the fifteenth book on the Provincial Edict.] An ascendant is not to be equalled to a patron to such an extent that even the Fauian or Caluisian action should be granted to him, because it is inequitable that the alienation of their own property should not be free for freeborn persons.

Notes

  1. §37.12.2.prnon usque adeo ... ut — The correlative construction 'non usque adeo ... ut' takes a subjunctive clause of result or degree ('ut... detur'), meaning 'not to be equalled to such an extent that...'.
  2. §37.12.2.pringenuis hominibus non esse liberam rerum suarum alienationem — An accusative-with-infinitive clause functioning as the real subject of the impersonal expression 'iniquum est'. 'alienationem' is the subject accusative of the infinitive 'esse', 'liberam' is the predicate adjective, and 'ingenuis hominibus' is a dative of reference ('for freeborn persons').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §37.12.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:37.12.2.pr

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