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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §4.8.28.pr

Submission of Certain or Uncertain Sums to Arbitration

Passage 849 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that it does not matter whether a certain or uncertain sum is submitted to arbitration, giving an example of an uncertain sum.

[PAULUS libro tertio decimo ad edictum. ] §4.8.28.prNon autem interest, certa an incerta summa compromissa sit, ut puta ‘quanti ea res erit'.
[PAULUS in his thirteenth book on the Edict.] Moreover, it does not matter whether a certain or an uncertain sum has been submitted to arbitration, as for example, 'whatever the value of the matter shall be'.

Notes

  1. 4.8.28.printerest — The impersonal verb interest takes the indirect question certa an incerta... sit as its subject, meaning 'it does not matter whether...'.
  2. 4.8.28.prquanti — Genitive of value or price (quanti) used with the future verb erit to denote 'of what value it will be'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §4.8.28.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.8.28.pr

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