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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §44.3.8.pr

Accession of Time During the Flight of a Slave

Passage 7252 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian states that in the accession of time, the period during which a slave is in flight is still counted as running in favor of the master.

[ULPIANUS libro primo regularum. ] §44.3.8.prIn accessione temporis et id tempus, quo in fuga sit seruus, domino eius procedere uerum est.
[ULPIANUS, Rules, book one] In the accession of time, it is true that also that time during which a slave is in flight runs in favor of his master.

Notes

  1. §44.3.8.prIn accessione temporis — In the "accession of time". This refers to the legal practice of adding or accumulating time, such as adding a predecessor's period of possession to one's own for the purpose of usucapion.
  2. §44.3.8.prid tempus... domino eius procedere uerum est — The accusative-and-infinitive clause `id tempus... procedere` functions as the subject of the impersonal expression `uerum est` (it is true). Here, `id tempus` is the subject accusative of the infinitive `procedere` (to run/proceed), and `domino` is a dative of advantage, meaning "runs (or accrues) in favor of the master."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §44.3.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:44.3.8.pr

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