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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §4.8.12.pr

Role of the Praetor in Pending Conditional Submissions

Passage 833 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

In the case of a conditional submission to arbitration where the condition is pending, the praetor's role is pointed out to be limited perhaps only to extending the deadline of the submission if possible.

[PAULUS libro tertio decimo ad edictum. ] §4.8.12.prQuo casu ad praetorem pertinebit in eo forsitan solo, ut si possit dies compromissi proferri, proferatur.
[PAULUS libro tertio decimo ad edictum.] In which case, the intervention of the praetor will perhaps pertain only to this, that if the day of the submission to arbitration can be extended, it should be extended.

Notes

  1. §4.8.12.prQuo casu — A relative adjective referring to the situation described in the preceding section (§4.8.11.4), where the penalty of submission is conditional and the condition is pending.
  2. §4.8.12.prin eo... ut... proferatur — The demonstrative pronoun eo (ablative case as the object of the preposition in) anticipates the following ut-clause (a substantive clause with the subjunctive present proferatur), meaning "in this [point] only, namely, that... should be extended".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §4.8.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.8.12.pr

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