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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.1.17.pr

Agent's Notice and the Principal's Right to Interdict

Passage 6115 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text explains that if an agent forbids someone from carrying out a new work, the principal (owner) is entitled to the interdict "what by force or stealth" (quod vi aut clam).

[PAULUS libro quinquagensimo septimo ad edictum. ] §39.1.17.prSi procurator opus nouum facientem prohibuerit, domino competit quod ui aut clam interdictum.
[PAULUS, On the Edict, book fifty-seven.] If an agent has forbidden someone who is constructing a new work, the owner has a right to the interdict "what by force or stealth" (quod vi aut clam).

Notes

  1. 39.1.17.propus nouum facientem — The present participle facientem (accusative singular masculine/feminine) is used substantively as the direct object of the verb prohibuerit, with opus nouum serving as the object of this participle.
  2. 39.1.17.prdomino — Dative case. Used with the verb competit ("is available to", "belongs to") to indicate the principal (dominus) to whom the legal effect (in this case, the right to the interdict) accrues, as opposed to the agent (procurator) who performed the act of forbidding.
  3. 39.1.17.prquod ui aut clam interdictum — A transposition of the standard legal phrase interdictum quod vi aut clam (the interdict against what is done by force or stealth). The clause quod ui aut clam functions adjectivally to modify interdictum (nominative singular neuter, which is the subject of competit).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.1.17.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.1.17.pr

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