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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §44.7.53.pr

Restriction on Exercising Multiple Actions from One Fact

Passage 7338 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains the restriction on exercising multiple actions arising from a single fact and the inclusion of successors and adopters through general textual additions.

[IDEM libro tertio regularum. ] §44.7.53.prPlura delicta in una re plures admittunt actiones, sed non posse omnibus uti probatum est: nam si ex una obligatione plures actiones nascantur, una tantummodo, non omnibus utendum est.
[THE SAME, rules, book III] Multiple delicts in a single matter allow for multiple actions, but it is established that one cannot use them all; for if multiple actions arise from a single obligation, only one must be used, not all.
generaliter adicimus 'eiue, ad quem ea res pertinebit', et adrogantis et eorum, qui iure nobis succedunt, personas comprehendimus.
Generally, we add "or to him to whom that matter shall belong", and we comprehend the personae of both the adopter and of those who succeed us by law.

Notes

  1. §44.7.53.prnon posse omnibus uti — An accusative-with-infinitive (A.C.I.) construction with posse as the infinitive, where the subject is omitted as general. The entire clause forms the subject of probatum est. uti is the infinitive of the deponent verb utor, which governs the ablative (omnibus).
  2. §44.7.53.pruna tantummodo, non omnibus utendum est — utendum est is an impersonal passive construction using the gerundive of the deponent verb utor (which regularly governs the ablative), expressing obligation or necessity. The objects of the action (una and omnibus) remain in the ablative.
  3. §44.7.53.pradrogantis — The genitive singular form of the substantivated present participle adrogans (from adrogare, to adopt a persona sui iuris). In Roman law, it refers to the 'adrogator' (the adopting parent) who adopts someone through adrogatio.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §44.7.53.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:44.7.53.pr

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