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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.5.32.pr

Assessment of Privileges by Cause and Equal Concurrence

Passage 6981 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text explains that privileges are assessed based on their cause rather than timing, and those sharing the same title concur in priority despite differences in time.

[PAULUS libro singulari regularum. ] §42.5.32.prPriuilegia non ex tempore aestimantur, sed ex causa, et si eiusdem tituli fuerunt, concurrunt, licet diuersitates temporis in his fuerint.
[PAULUS in his single book of Rules.] Privileges are not valued by time, but by their cause; and if they are of the same title, they concur, although there may have been differences of time among them.

Notes

  1. §42.5.32.preiusdem tituli fuerunt — The genitive phrase 'eiusdem tituli' functions as a genitive of quality or predicate genitive, meaning 'of the same title' (legal basis). 'fuerunt' is the perfect indicative, functioning here within a conditional clause.
  2. §42.5.32.prlicet diuersitates temporis in his fuerint — The conjunction 'licet' introduces a concessive clause with the subjunctive (here, the perfect subjunctive 'fuerint'), meaning 'although' or 'even if'. 'in his' refers to 'among these (privileges)'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.5.32.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.5.32.pr

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