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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.10.27.pr

Action for Injury for Damaging a Father's Statue

Passage 8029 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Citing the opinion of Labeo, it states that if a father's statue on a monument is damaged with stones, an action for injury can be brought, whereas an action for violation of a sepulchre cannot.

[IDEM libro uicensimo septimo ad edictum. ] §47.10.27.prSi statua patris tui in monumento posita saxis caesa est, sepulchri uiolati agi non posse, iniuriarum posse Labeo scribit.
[THE SAME in the twenty-seventh book on the Edict.] Labeo writes that if the statue of your father placed on a monument has been damaged with stones, an action for violation of a sepulchre cannot be brought, but an action for injuries can be brought.

Notes

  1. §47.10.27.prsepulchri uiolati agi non posse, iniuriarum posse — These genitives (sepulchri uiolati and iniuriarum) modify the omitted noun actio (action) in a legal context. The verb agi is the present passive infinitive of ago (to bring an action), and the entire clause forms an accusative and infinitive (ACI) construction meaning '(the respective) action can or cannot be brought'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.10.27.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.10.27.pr

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