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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.2.3.pr

Paulus on the Etymology of Loss and Condemnation

Passage 6124 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains the etymological origin of the terms for loss and condemnation as being derived from the reduction of patrimony.

[PAULUS libro quadragensimo septimo ad edictum. ] §39.2.3.prDamnum et damnatio ab ademptione et quasi deminutione patrimonii dicta sunt.
[PAULUS libro quadragensimo septimo ad edictum.] Loss and condemnation are derived from the deprivation and, as it were, diminution of patrimony.

Notes

  1. §39.2.3.prdicta sunt — The subject consists of two singular nouns of different genders: damnum (neuter) and damnatio (feminine). Since they represent inanimate things, the predicate participle dicta takes the neuter plural form. The construction dicere ab... is an idiomatic expression used to explain etymological origins ("to be named/derived from...").
  2. §39.2.3.prquasi deminutione — The adverb quasi modifies the noun deminutione, meaning "as it were" or "a sort of", to qualify the reduction of patrimony which is not a complete deprivation (ademptio) but equivalent to it.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.2.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.2.3.pr

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