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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.1.42.pr

Prohibition of Revoking Judgments and Same-Day Corrections

Passage 6894 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus states that while a praetor cannot rescind his own previous judgment, he may and should supply any remaining matters necessary for the consequence of the decision on the same day.

[IDEM libro tertio responsorum. ] §42.1.42.prPaulus respondit rescindere quidem sententiam suam praecedentem praetorem non posse, reliqua autem, quae ad consequentiam quidem iam statutorum pertinent, priori tamen sententiae desunt, circa condemnandum reum uel absoluendum debere supplere, scilicet eodem die.
[THE SAME, in the third book of Opinions.] Paulus replied that, while a praetor cannot indeed rescind his own preceding judgment, he ought to supply the remaining matters—which indeed pertain to the consequence of what has already been determined, but are lacking in the prior judgment—concerning the condemnation or acquittal of the defendant, that is to say, on the same day.

Notes

  1. §42.1.42.prpraetorem — The subject accusative in the accusative-with-infinitive (AcI) construction, serving as the subject for both `non posse` and `debere`.
  2. §42.1.42.prcondemnandum reum uel absoluendum — A gerundive construction governed by the preposition `circa` ('concerning'), in which the gerundives `condemnandum` and `absoluendum` agree in gender and number with the noun `reum`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.1.42.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.1.42.pr

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