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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §5.1.68.pr

Procedural Order of Edicts Leading to a Peremptory Edict

Passage 949 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text explains the procedural order for reaching a peremptory edict, which involves first requesting the first edict and then the second after the absence of the opponent.

[IDEM libro octauo disputationum. ] §5.1.68.prAd peremptorium edictum hoc ordine uenitur, ut primo quis petat post absentiam aduersarii edictum primum, mox alterum
[THE SAME, in the Eighth Book of Disputations.] A peremptory edict is reached in the following order: namely, that after the absence of the opponent, one first requests the first edict, and soon after the second.

Notes

  1. §5.1.68.pruenitur — The third-person singular passive of the intransitive verb uenio (to come, arrive), used impersonally to mean "it is proceeded to" or "one arrives at."
  2. §5.1.68.prut primo quis petat — An ut clause (substantive or consecutive) explaining the content of the preceding hoc ordine ("in the following order"). The subject of the subjunctive present petat is the indefinite pronoun quis ("one" or "a party").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §5.1.68.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.1.68.pr

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