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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §4.6.24.pr

Restitution Against Those Impeding Suit by Cunning

Passage 787 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that the rules of restitutio also apply to those who, when sued, use subterfuge and cunning to prevent an action from being brought against them.

[PAULUS libro duodecimo ad edictum. ] §4.6.24.prSed et ad eos pertinet, qui conuenti frustrantur et qualibet tergiuersatione et sollertia efficiunt, ne cum ipsis agi possit.
[PAULUS in the twelfth book on the Edict.] But this also applies to those who, when sued, practice evasion and by any kind of subterfuge and cunning bring it about that no action can be brought against them.

Notes

  1. §4.6.24.prconuenti — The perfect passive participle (nominative plural) of conuenire (to summon, sue), agreeing with the relative pronoun qui and used adverbially to mean 'when sued' or 'although summoned'.
  2. §4.6.24.prne cum ipsis agi possit — A clause of purpose or result dependent on efficiunt. agi is the passive infinitive of cum aliquo agere (to bring an action against someone), used here impersonally to mean 'that an action be brought against themselves'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §4.6.24.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.6.24.pr

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