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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.218.pr

Comprehensive Scope of the Word To Do for Actions

Passage 9032 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Papinian explains that the word 'to do' has a comprehensive meaning that encompasses all specific actions, such as giving, paying, counting, judging, and walking.

[PAPINIANUS libro uicensimo septimo quaestionum. ] §50.16.218.prUerbum 'facere' omnem omnino faciendi causam complectitur dandi, soluendi, numerandi, iudicandi, ambulandi.
[PAPINIAN, in the twenty-seventh book of Questions.] The word 'to do' embraces absolutely every case of doing, such as giving, paying, counting, judging, and walking.

Notes

  1. §50.16.218.prcausam — The noun "causa" here does not mean "cause" or "motive," but broadly denotes a "case," "category," or "matter" of doing in legal discourse. Thus "omnem faciendi causam" is understood as "every case of doing."
  2. §50.16.218.prdandi, soluendi, numerandi, iudicandi, ambulandi — These are all genitives of the gerund, functioning as appositional (or explanatory) genitives to the preceding noun phrase "omnem omnino faciendi causam," enumerating the concrete contents of the action.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.218.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.218.pr

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