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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §4.8.4.pr

Compelling Arbitration by Magistrates Based on Imperium

Passage 825 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that magistrates with higher or equal authority (imperium) cannot be compelled to perform arbitration duties regardless of when they accepted them, whereas inferior magistrates can be compelled.

[PAULUS libro tertio decimo ad edictum. ] §4.8.4.prNam magistratus superiore aut pari imperio nullo modo possunt cogi: nec interest ante an in ipso magistratu arbitrium susceperint.
[PAULUS in his thirteenth book on the Edict.] For magistrates with higher or equal authority can in no way be compelled; nor does it matter whether they undertook the arbitration before or during the magistracy itself.
inferiores possunt cogi.
Inferior magistrates can be compelled.

Notes

  1. §4.8.4.prsuperiore aut pari imperio — Ablative of quality modifying the subject noun magistratus. The implied standard of comparison is the authority (imperium) of the praetor.
  2. §4.8.4.prnec interest ante an in ipso magistratu — An indirect question serving as the subject of the impersonal verb interest. The adverb ante is used contrastively with in ipso magistratu to mean "before [holding] the magistracy."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §4.8.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.8.4.pr

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