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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.23.1.pr

Definition of Popular Actions Safeguarding Public Rights

Passage 8106 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The definition of a popular action (actio popularis) is provided, explaining that it is an action that protects the public right of the people itself.

[PAULUS libro octauo ad edictum. ] §47.23.1.prEam popularem actionem dicimus, quae suum ius populi tuetur.
[PAULUS in the eighth book on the Edict.]\n\nWe call that a popular action which protects the right of the people itself.

Notes

  1. §47.23.1.prEam... quae — The demonstrative adjective eam (modifying actionem) and the relative pronoun quae are used correlatively to mean "that action which..." or "such an action as...".
  2. §47.23.1.prsuum ius populi — Although suum is a reflexive possessive adjective, it does not refer to the subject of the clause (quae), but is used to emphasize the genitive populi, meaning "the people's own right."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.23.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.23.1.pr

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