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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §4.3.36.pr

Inadmissibility of the Action for Fraud Between Complicit Parties

Passage 697 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states the legal principle that if both parties have acted with malicious intent, they cannot bring an action on fraud against each other.

[MARCIANUS libro secundo regularum. ] §4.3.36.prSi duo dolo malo fecerint, inuicem de dolo non agent.
[MARCIANUS, in the second book of Rules.] If two persons have acted with malicious intent, they shall not bring an action on fraud against each other.

Notes

  1. §4.3.36.prde dolo non agent — The verb `agere` is used in its technical legal sense of "to bring an action" with the object `actionem` omitted. Combined with the prepositional phrase `de dolo` (concerning fraud), it means "to bring an action on fraud." The subject is `duo` from the preceding clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §4.3.36.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.3.36.pr

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