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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.7.4.pr

Exclusion of Tender Grass-like Plants from Trees

Passage 7972 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Gaius argues that a plant which is still so tender as to be like grass should not be included in the legal category of trees.

[GAIUS libro primo ad legem duodecim tabularum. ] §47.7.4.prCerte non dubitatur, si adhuc adeo tenerum sit, ut herbae loco sit, non debere arboris numero haberi.
[GAIUS on the law of the twelve tables, book 1] Certainly there is no doubt that, if it is still so tender as to be in the place of grass, it ought not to be reckoned in the number of trees.

Notes

  1. §47.7.4.prnon debere — The infinitive verb acting as the complement of the impersonal passive 'non dubitatur' (there is no doubt). While a negated 'dubitare' commonly takes a 'quin' clause in classical Latin, it here introduces an accusative and infinitive construction (with the subject pronoun omitted) to mean 'there is no doubt that...'.
  2. §47.7.4.prherbae loco — An idiomatic expression where 'loco' without a preposition, accompanied by a genitive (herbae), means 'in the place of' or 'equivalent to'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.7.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.7.4.pr

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