Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §4.8.37.pr

Claim by an Heir Violating Prohibition and Penalty

Passage 859 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that if an heir makes a claim despite the arbitrator's prohibition of claims between the parties, the penalty is incurred, emphasizing that the purpose of arbitration is to terminate lawsuits, not to delay them.

[CELSUS libro secundo digestorum. ] §4.8.37.prQuamuis arbiter alterum ab altero petere uetuit, si tamen heres petit, poenam committet: non enim differendarum litium causa, sed tollendarum ad arbitros itur.

[CELSUS in his second book of the Digests.] Although the arbitrator forbade one party to make a claim against the other, yet if the heir makes a claim, he will incur the penalty; for people go to arbitrators not for the purpose of delaying lawsuits, but of putting an end to them.

Notes

4.8.37.prQuamuis ... uetuit — Although the conjunction 'quamvis' usually requires the subjunctive mood in classical Latin, here it is used with the indicative perfect 'uetuit'. This emphasizes the concession of a factual occurrence.
4.8.37.prpoenam committet — A legal expression meaning 'to incur the penalty' or 'to trigger the liability for the stipulated penalty'. The subject is implicitly 'heres' (the heir).
4.8.37.pritur — The third-person singular passive of the intransitive verb 'eo' (to go), used impersonally. Literally 'it is gone', meaning 'people go' or 'one repairs to'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §4.8.37.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.8.37.pr

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