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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.173.pr-50.16.173.1

Meaning of Colleagues and Criteria for Absence from the City

Passage 8987 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpianus defines 'colleagues' as those possessing the same authority, and determines that being 'absent' from the city applies to someone who is outside its continuous buildings.

[IDEM libro trigensimo nono ad Sabinum. ] §50.16.173.prCollegarum' appellatione hi continentur, qui sunt eiusdem potestatis.
[THE SAME, in the thirty-ninth book on Sabinus.] By the term 'colleagues' are included those who are of the same power.
§50.16.173.1Qui extra continentia urbis est, 'abest': ceterum usque ad continentia non abesse uidebitur.
He who is outside the continuous buildings of the city 'is absent'; otherwise, up to the continuous buildings he will be deemed not to be absent.

Notes

  1. §50.16.173.preiusdem potestatis — Genitive of quality (genitivus qualitatis) acting as a predicate after the copula 'sunt' within the relative clause, describing the attribute of 'possessing the same authority'.
  2. §50.16.173.1continentia — Neuter plural accusative of the adjective/participle 'continens' (continuous, contiguous) used substantively as the object of the prepositions 'extra' and 'usque ad', referring to the built-up area continuous with the city boundaries.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.173.pr-50.16.173.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.173.pr-50.16.173.1

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