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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §49.15.2.pr-49.15.2.2

Application of Postliminium to Ships, Horses, and Arms

Passage 8573 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that while warships, merchant vessels, and trained horses are granted the right of postliminium, this right is denied to fishing boats, pleasure boats, and weapons, which are lost through disgraceful circumstances.

[IDEM libro trigensimo nono digestorum. ] §49.15.2.prNauibus longis atque onerariis propter belli usum postliminium est, non piscatoriis aut si quas actuarias uoluptatis causa parauerunt.
[THE SAME, from the Thirty-Ninth Book of the Digests.] Warships and merchant vessels have the right of postliminium because of their use in war, but not fishing boats, or any swift vessels which people have provided for the sake of pleasure.
§49.15.2.1Equus item aut equa freni patiens recipitur postliminio: nam sine culpa equitis proripere se potuerunt.
Likewise, a stallion or a mare accustomed to the bridle is recovered by postliminium; for they could have run away without any fault of the rider.
§49.15.2.2Non idem in armis iuris est, quippe nec sine flagitio amittuntur: arma enim postliminio reuerti negatur, quod turpiter amittantur:
The same rule of law does not apply to arms, since indeed they are not lost without disgrace; for it is denied that arms return by postliminium, because they are lost shamefully.

Notes

  1. §49.15.2.prquas actuarias — 'quas' is the feminine accusative plural indefinite pronoun modifying 'actuarias' (light vessels/swift ships, which is used as a noun or an adjective modifying the implied noun 'naves').
  2. §49.15.2.1freni patiens — 'patiens' is a present participle used adjectivally, which governs the genitive case. Here, 'freni' (bridle) is in the genitive (objective genitive), meaning 'accustomed to/tolerant of the bridle'.
  3. §49.15.2.2Non idem in armis iuris est — 'idem' is the nominative neuter singular pronoun, and 'iuris' is a partitive genitive, together meaning 'the same of right' or 'the same rule of law'.
  4. §49.15.2.2arma enim postliminio reuerti negatur — 'negatur' is used impersonally in the passive voice, taking the accusative with infinitive (AcI) clause 'arma... reuerti' (that arms return) as its subject.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §49.15.2.pr-49.15.2.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:49.15.2.pr-49.15.2.2

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