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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.10.20.pr

Action for Injury for Unauthorized Sealing of Debtor's House

Passage 8022 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Modestinus opines that an action for injury can be brought against a person who, for the purpose of insulting an absent debtor, seals up their house without proper authority.

[MODESTINUS libro duodecimo responsorum. ] §47.10.20.prSi iniuriae faciendae gratia Seia domum absentis debitoris signasset sine auctoritate eius, qui concedendi ius potestatemue habuit, iniuriarum actionem intendi posse respondit.
[MODESTINUS in the twelfth book of Opinions] He replied that if Seia, for the purpose of committing an injury, should have sealed up the house of an absent debtor without the authority of him who had the right or power to permit it, an action for injury can be brought.

Notes

  1. §47.10.20.prsignasset — A syncopated form of signavisset (third-person singular pluperfect active subjunctive). In this conditional clause, it represents an action completed prior to the past main verb (respondit).
  2. §47.10.20.prconcedendi — Genitive of the gerund, modifying the preceding nouns ius potestatemue ('the right or power of granting/permitting').
  3. §47.10.20.priniuriarum actionem intendi posse — An accusative with infinitive clause functioning as the object of the main verb respondit (indirect speech). The accusative iniuriarum actionem is the subject of posse, which in turn takes the passive infinitive intendi as its complementary infinitive.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.10.20.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.10.20.pr

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