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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.1.67.pr

Unjust Judgment from Own Fault Precluding Mandate Claim

Passage 7615 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that if a person is unjustly condemned despite raising a proper plea, they cannot recover damages under the law of mandate if they themselves caused the unjust condemnation through their own fault.

[IDEM libro tertio ad Neratium. ] §46.1.67.prExceptione, quae tibi prodesse debebat, usus iniuria iudicis damnatus es: nihil tibi praestabitur iure mandati, quia iniuriam, quae tibi facta est, penes te manere quam ad alium transferri aequius est, scilicet si culpa tua iniustae damnationis causam praebuisti.
[THE SAME in the third book to Neratius.] If, despite having used a plea which ought to have benefited you, you have been condemned through the injustice of the judge, nothing will be made good to you under the law of mandate; because it is more equitable that the injustice which was done to you should remain with you rather than be transferred to another, provided, of course, that you by your own fault provided the cause for the unjust condemnation.

Notes

  1. §46.1.67.prExceptione ... usus — The past participle `usus` of the deponent verb `utor` takes `Exceptione` as its object in the ablative case. Here, it is interpreted concessively ('although you used...').
  2. §46.1.67.priniuriam, quae tibi facta est, penes te manere quam ad alium transferri aequius est — Two accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) clauses, `iniuriam... manere` (that the injustice remain with you) and `[iniuriam] ad alium transferri` (that it be transferred to another), serve as the subjects of the impersonal expression `aequius est` (it is more equitable), compared by `quam`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.1.67.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.1.67.pr

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