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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §43.16.11.pr

Definition of Violence by Interference with Possession

Passage 7087 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius defines a person who commits violence as one who prevents a possessor from using their property at their own discretion through actions such as digging, plowing, or building.

[POMPONIUS libro sexto ex Plautio. ] §43.16.11.prUim facit, qui non sinit possidentem eo, quod possidebit, uti arbitrio suo, siue inserendo siue fodiendo siue arando siue quid aedificando siue quid omnino faciendo, per quod liberam possessionem aduersarii non relinquit.
[POMPONIUS, in the sixth book on Plautius.] He commits violence who does not allow the possessor to use at his own discretion that which he will possess, whether by grafting, or by digging, or by plowing, or by building something, or by doing anything at all, whereby he does not leave the adversary in free possession.

Notes

  1. §43.16.11.prnon sinit possidentem eo, quod possidebit, uti arbitrio suo — The verb sino takes an accusative and infinitive construction: "does not allow (non sinit) the accusative (possidentem) to use (uti)". The deponent verb utor (uti) governs the ablative object eo. The relative clause quod possidebit modifies eo; the future tense possidebit ("which he will possess") practically refers to what the possessor currently possesses or is about to possess.
  2. §43.16.11.prsiue inserendo siue fodiendo siue arando siue quid aedificando siue quid omnino faciendo — A series of gerunds in the ablative case expressing means ("by doing..."). Inserendo means "grafting" or "inserting", fodiendo "digging", and arando "plowing". The pronoun quid is used as an indefinite accusative direct object (instead of aliquid) for both aedificando and faciendo.
  3. §43.16.11.prper quod — The antecedent of the relative pronoun quod is the entire series of obstructing acts mentioned in the preceding siue... clauses. Combined with the preposition per, it means "through which" or "whereby". The subject of this relative clause is the same as that of the main clause, namely qui (the one who commits violence).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §43.16.11.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:43.16.11.pr

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