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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §49.1.18.pr

Submission of Appeal Grounds by a Procurator for a Condemned Slave

Passage 8482 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

In response to a query about whether Lucius Titius, who appealed on behalf of his slave condemned to the beasts, can submit the grounds of the appeal through a procurator, Modestinus answers in the affirmative.

[IDEM libro septimo decimo responsorum. ] §49.1.18.prLucius Titius pro seruo suo, qui ad bestias datus est, prouocationem interposuit: quaero, an huiusmodi appellationis causas per procuratorem reddere possit.
[THE SAME, from the seventeenth book of Responses.] Lucius Titius interposed an appeal on behalf of his slave, who had been condemned to the beasts: I ask whether he can render the reasons for an appeal of this kind through a procurator.
Modestinus respondit posse.
Modestinus replied that he can.

Notes

  1. §49.1.18.prcausas reddere — Meaning "to render or submit the reasons." In appeal procedures, it refers to the act of the appellant presenting the formal grounds of the appeal to the magistrate.
  2. §49.1.18.prposse — An accusative with infinitive construction following the main verb `respondit`, with the subject accusative `eum` (referring to Lucius Titius) being omitted. It means "replied that he (Titius) is able to do so."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §49.1.18.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:49.1.18.pr

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