Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.2.15.pr-47.2.15.2
Action for Theft by Pledgees and Holders with Retention Rights
Summary
This passage discusses the creditor's right to bring an action for theft for the full value of a stolen pledge and his duty to refund the excess to the debtor, the owner's liability for stealing a thing subject to another's usufruct, and the borrower's right to bring an action for theft against the lending owner when holding a right of retention.
Notes
- §47.2.15.prCreditoris — In the construction of the impersonal verb interest, the person who has an interest is expressed in the genitive case; hence, Creditoris is in the genitive.
- §47.2.15.2tua — In the interest construction, when the person who has an interest is a first or second person singular pronoun, the ablative singular feminine of the possessive pronoun (tua) is used instead of the genitive (tui).
- §47.2.15.2commodati — This can be understood either as a genitive of charge/responsibility modifying tenearis (passive of tenere, meaning "to be held liable"), or as an ellipse of actione commodati ("by the action on loan"), meaning "since you are not held liable under the loan."
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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.2.15.pr-47.2.15.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.2.15.pr-47.2.15.2
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