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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §5.1.33.pr

Requesting Notice of Action and Consent to Jurisdiction

Passage 914 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states the legal principle that merely requesting the disclosure of the type of action before a certain judge does not constitute agreement to that judge's jurisdiction.

[MODESTINUS libro tertio regularum. ] §5.1.33.prNon uidetur in iudicem consensisse, qui edi sibi genus apud eundem iudicem desiderat actionis.
[MODESTINUS, Rules, Book III.] A person who desires the class of action to be disclosed to him before the same judge is not deemed to have agreed to that judge.

Notes

  1. §5.1.33.prgenus ... actionis — The accusative genus (the subject accusative of the passive infinitive edi) and its modifying genitive actionis are widely separated (hyperbaton) by the intervening phrase apud eundem iudicem desiderat. The entire accusative with infinitive clause edi sibi genus actionis serves as the object of the verb desiderat.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §5.1.33.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.1.33.pr

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