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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.217.pr-50.16.217.1

Temporal Conditions and Meaning of Within Days

Passage 9031 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text discusses the legal difference between the conditions 'when' and 'after' one is able to speak, and explains that a deadline set as 'within days' is interpreted as 'within two days'.

[IAUOLENUS libro primo ex posterioribus Labeonis. ] §50.16.217.prInter illam condicionem 'cum fari potuerit' et 'postquam fari potuerit' multum interest: nam posteriorem scripturam uberiorem esse constat, 'cum fari potuerit' artiorem et id tantummodo tempus significari, quo primum fari possit.
[JAVOLENUS, in the first book from the Epitomes of Labeo's Posthumous Works.] There is a great difference between the condition 'when he shall have been able to speak' and 'after he shall have been able to speak'; for it is clear that the latter wording is more comprehensive, whereas 'when he shall have been able to speak' is narrower, and signifies only that moment in which he is first able to speak.
§50.16.217.1Item ita data condicione 'illud facito in diebus', si nihil praeterea fuisset adiectum, in biduo condicionem impleri oportet.
Likewise, if a condition is given in this way, 'do that within days', if nothing further has been added, the condition must be fulfilled within two days.

Notes

  1. §50.16.217.prposteriorem scripturam uberiorem esse constat, 'cum fari potuerit' artiorem et id tantummodo tempus significari — Three accusative with infinitive (AcI) clauses are coordinated under the impersonal verb `constat` ('it is well known/clear'). The first is `posteriorem scripturam uberiorem esse`; the second is `'cum fari potuerit' artiorem` (with the copula `esse` omitted); and the third is `id tantummodo tempus significari`.
  2. §50.16.217.1in diebus — The preposition `in` with the ablative plural `diebus` ('within days'). When no specific number of days is added, it is legally interpreted as referring to the minimum plural number, which is 'two days' (`in biduo`).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.217.pr-50.16.217.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.217.pr-50.16.217.1

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