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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §43.16.7.pr

Defendant in Ejection Interdict After Third-Party Possession

Passage 7083 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that when a person is forcibly dispossessed, even if a third party later begins to possess the property, the interdict action can only be brought against the person who committed the actual ejection.

[IDEM libro uicensimo quarto ad edictum. ] §43.16.7.prCum a te ui deiectus sim, si Titius eandem rem possidere coeperit, non possum cum alio quam tecum interdicto experiri.
[IDEM libro uicensimo quarto ad edictum.] When I have been forcibly ejected by you, if Titius should begin to possess the same property, I cannot proceed by interdict against any other than you.

Notes

  1. 43.16.7.prcum alio quam tecum — A construction involving quam to express comparison or exclusion. It has the meaning of 'with any other than you' (cum alio quam cum te). The preposition cum is suffixed to te, forming tecum.
  2. 43.16.7.printerdicto experiri — The deponent verb experiri here means 'to take legal action' or 'to proceed'. The noun interdicto is an ablative of means, meaning 'to proceed by way of interdict'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §43.16.7.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:43.16.7.pr

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