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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §4.1.4.pr

Denial of Minor Restitution Causing Prejudice to Greater Matters

Passage 633 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Presents a practical rule that a petition for restitution in integrum concerning a very minor matter should not be heard if it might create a prejudice to a more significant matter or sum.

[CALLISTRATUS libro primo edicti monitorii. ] §4.1.4.prScio illud a quibusdam obseruatum, ne propter satis minimam rem uel summam, si maiori rei uel summae praeiudicetur, audiatur is qui in integrum restitui postulat.
[CALLISTRATUS, on the Monitory Edict, book 1] I know that this has been observed by some, that a person who demands to be restored to his former position should not be heard on account of a sufficiently minor matter or sum, if a prejudice would be created to a greater matter or sum.

Notes

  1. §4.1.4.prillud ... ne — The proleptic demonstrative pronoun illud (the accusative subject of obseruatum esse) points forward to and is explained by the subsequent ne clause.
  2. §4.1.4.prpraeiudicetur — An impersonal passive of the intransitive verb praeiudicare (to judge beforehand, to prejudice), which takes the dative maiori rei uel summae.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §4.1.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.1.4.pr

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