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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §5.1.17.pr

Replacing a Judge Appointed as Litigant's Heir

Passage 898 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Presents Julian's view that if a litigant appoints the judge as their heir, another judge must be appointed to avoid the injustice of someone judging their own case.

[IDEM libro uicensimo secundo ad edictum. ] §5.1.17.prIulianus ait, si alter ex litigatoribus iudicem solum heredem uel ex parte fecerit, alius iudex necessario sumendus est, quia iniquum est aliquem suae rei iudicem fieri.
[THE SAME, in the twenty-second book on the Edict.] Julian says that if one of the litigants should make the judge his sole heir or heir to a part, another judge must of necessity be selected, because it is unjust for anyone to become the judge of his own case.

Notes

  1. §5.1.17.prfecerit — Perfect subjunctive (or future perfect indicative) active of the verb facere. It forms a double accusative construction with iudicem as the direct object and solum heredem uel ex parte as the object complement. The phrase ex parte means 'for a share' of the inheritance.
  2. §5.1.17.praliquem suae rei iudicem fieri — An accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) clause serving as the subject of the impersonal expression iniquum est. aliquem is the subject accusative of fieri, and iudicem is the predicate accusative after the copulative infinitive fieri. suae rei is an objective genitive dependent on iudicem.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §5.1.17.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.1.17.pr

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