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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §44.7.19.pr

Claims for Dowry as Non-Lucrative and Effect of Concurrence

Passage 7304 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that a claim for dowry is not deemed a lucrative cause but is treated similarly to a creditor or buyer, so that acquiring the thing through another lucrative cause does not destroy the original actions.

[IDEM libro septuagensimo tertio digestorum. ] §44.7.19.prEx promissione dotis: non uidetur lucratiua causa esse, sed quodammodo creditor aut emptor intellegitur, qui dotem petit.
[THE SAME, from the seventy-third book of Digests.] In the case of a promise of a dowry, it is not deemed to be a lucrative cause, but rather, he who claims the dowry is understood to be in some sense a creditor or a buyer.
porro cum creditor uel emptor ex lucratiua causa rem habere coeperit, nihilo minus integras actiones retinent, sicut ex contrario qui non ex causa lucratiua rem habere coepit, eandem non prohibetur ex lucratiua causa petere.
Furthermore, when a creditor or a buyer has come to possess the thing through a lucrative cause, they nevertheless retain their actions unimpaired, just as, conversely, he who has come to possess a thing not through a lucrative cause is not prohibited from claiming the same thing through a lucrative cause.

Notes

  1. §44.7.19.prEx promissione dotis — A prepositional phrase placed at the beginning to set the condition of the discussion. dotis is an objective genitive modifying promissione, meaning "in the case of the promise of a dowry."
  2. §44.7.19.prqui dotem petit — The antecedent pronoun (such as is) is omitted, and the relative clause as a whole functions as the subject of the verb intellegitur.
  3. §44.7.19.prretinent — Although the subject creditor uel emptor is disjunctive, the verb retinent is plural. This is an agreement according to sense (synesis), treating both categories collectively.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §44.7.19.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:44.7.19.pr

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