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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §4.8.20.pr

Prohibition on an Arbitrator Correcting His Own Error

Passage 841 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that an arbitrator cannot correct an award once pronounced, even if he made an error in it.

[GAIUS libro quinto ad edictum prouinciale. ] §4.8.20.prquia arbiter, etsi errauerit in sententia dicenda, corrigere eam non potest.
[GAIUS in his fifth book on the Provincial Edict.] Because an arbitrator, even if he made a mistake in pronouncing his award, cannot correct it.

Notes

  1. §4.8.20.prquia — A conjunction of cause. This fragment of Gaius is placed here by the compilers of the Digest to provide the reason for the conclusion in the preceding fragment of Paul (D. 4.8.19.2) that an arbitrator cannot change his award.
  2. §4.8.20.prin sententia dicenda — A gerundive construction consisting of the preposition 'in' and the gerundive 'dicenda' agreeing in gender, number, and case (ablative feminine singular) with the noun 'sententia'. It functions substantively to mean 'in pronouncing the award'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §4.8.20.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.8.20.pr

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