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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §44.1.17.pr

Inapplicability of Exception in Claims for Servitude and Land

Passage 7206 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that if the right of way is claimed first and the estate afterward, the exception will not be harmful because the objects and the grounds for restitution are different.

[PAULUS libro septuagensimo ad edictum. ] §44.1.17.prSed si ante uiam, deinde fundum Titianum petat, quia et diuersa corpora sunt et causae restitutionum dispares, non nocebit exceptio.
[PAULUS in the seventieth book on the Edict.] But if he should sue first for the right of way and then for the Titian estate, because they are both different objects and the grounds for restitution are disparate, the exception will not be harmful.

Notes

  1. §44.1.17.prpetat — Third-person singular present subjunctive. The subject is omitted but refers back to the plaintiff (the claimant of the right of way and the estate) from the context of the previous section (16.pr). It introduces a hypothetical scenario in the conditional clause.
  2. §44.1.17.prnon nocebit — The verb noceo (to harm, hinder) usually governs the dative. Here, the dative pronoun (ei or petenti, referring to the plaintiff) is omitted, meaning "it will not be harmful to the plaintiff"—that is, the exception raised by the defendant will not stand.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §44.1.17.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:44.1.17.pr

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