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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.7.18.pr

Defense Status When the Praetor Does Not Compel Trial

Passage 7828 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that an honest man does not consider a case to be undefended if the praetor does not compel the acceptance of a trial regarding it.

[IDEM libro septimo disputationum. ] §46.7.18.prUir bonus non arbitratur indefensam esse rem, de qua praetor iudicium accipere non cogat.
[THE SAME, Disputations, book 7.] An honest man does not deem a case to be undefended, concerning which the praetor does not compel the acceptance of a trial.

Notes

  1. §46.7.18.prcogat — Subjunctive present. The subjunctive is used in the relative clause introduced by de qua to express a characterizing clause ("such a case that the praetor does not compel...") rather than a specific factual event.
  2. §46.7.18.priudicium accipere — Literally "to accept a trial". In Roman civil procedure, it refers to the defendant's submission to the joinder of issue (litis contestatio). The fact that the praetor does not compel it implies that the defendant is under no legal obligation to defend.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.7.18.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.7.18.pr

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