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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.1.5.pr-42.1.5.1

Scope of Jurisdiction and Cognizance, and Restitution Judgments

Passage 6856 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses the comparison between the scope of 'jurisdiction' and 'cognizance' in the praetor's edict, and the interpretation of a judge's condemnation to restore property left by a testament or trust.

[ULPIANUS libro quinquagensimo nono ad edictum. ] §42.1.5.prAit praetor: 'cuius de ea re iurisdictio est'. melius scripsisset: 'cuius de ea re notio est': etenim notionis nomen etiam ad eos pertineret, qui iurisdictionem non habent, sed habent de quauis alia causa notionem. §42.1.5.1Si iudex aliquem sic condemnet, ut, quod habet ex testamento uel codicillis Maeuii, restitueret Titio, sic accipiendum est, quasi quantitatem nominauit, quae testamento uel codicillis relicta est.
[ULPIAN, in the fifty-ninth book on the Edict.]\n\nThe praetor says: "whoever has jurisdiction over that matter." He would have written better: "whoever has cognizance of that matter"; for the term "cognizance" would also pertain to those who do not have jurisdiction, but have cognizance on any other account.\n\nIf a judge should condemn anyone in such a way that they should restore to Titius what they have from the testament or codicils of Maevius, it must be accepted in such a way as if he had specified the quantity which was left by the testament or codicils.
sed et si fideicommissum sine scriptura pronuntiatum, idem erit probandum.
Moreover, even if a trust was declared without writing, the same must be approved.

Notes

  1. §42.1.5.prmelius scripsisset — Subjunctive pluperfect expressing a past unfulfilled potentiality or a mild regret/criticism of a past action ("he would have written better" or "he should have written").
  2. §42.1.5.1ut... restitueret — An ut clause representing the content of the condemnation introduced by condemnet (present subjunctive). The use of the imperfect subjunctive restitueret shifts the perspective to the actual, past performance of the judge's pronouncement in a specific case.
  3. §42.1.5.1quasi quantitatem nominauit — The indicative perfect nominauit is used after quasi ("as if"). While quasi typically takes the subjunctive in classical Latin, the indicative is sometimes employed in legal contexts to express a legal fiction or treatment of a situation as an established fact.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.1.5.pr-42.1.5.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.1.5.pr-42.1.5.1

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