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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.171.pr

Application of the Phrase Has Reached You via an Intermediary

Passage 8985 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The author explains that the phrase 'has reached you' is correctly applied even when something reaches another person through you, as in the case of a freedman's inheritance acquired through a dependent patron for his adoptive father.

[POMPONIUS libro sexto decimo ad Sabinum. ] §50.16.171.pr'Peruenisse ad te' recte dicitur, quod per te ad alium peruenerit, ut in hereditate a liberto per patronum filium familias patri eius adoptiuo adquisita responsum est.
[POMPONIUS, in the sixteenth book on Sabinus.] It is correctly said that 'something has reached you' when it has reached another person through you, as was replied in the case of an inheritance acquired from a freedman, through a patron who was a son under paternal authority, for his adoptive father.

Notes

  1. §50.16.171.prquod per te ad alium peruenerit — The perfect subjunctive peruenerit introduces a causal clause or a hypothetical condition (meaning 'since/if it has reached another through you') justifying the expression recte dicitur.
  2. §50.16.171.prhereditate a liberto per patronum filium familias patri eius adoptiuo adquisita — A noun-participle construction where the ablative hereditate, governed by the preposition in, is modified by the perfect passive participle adquisita. The modifiers a liberto (from a freedman; agent), per patronum (through a patron; intermediary), and patri eius adoptiuo (for his adoptive father; dative of advantage) all depend on adquisita. Patronum and filium familias are in apposition (a patron who is a son under paternal authority).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.171.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.171.pr

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