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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.224.pr

Scope of Application of Bonds and Custody

Passage 9038 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Venuleius' definition of the scope of application (private vs. public) for the legal terms 'bonds' (uincula) and 'custody' (custodia).

[UENULEIUS libro septimo stipulationum. ] §50.16.224.pr'Uinculorum' appellatione uel priuata uel publica uincula significant, 'custodiae' uero tantum publicam custodiam.
[VENULEIUS, in the seventh book on Stipulations.] By the term 'bonds' they mean either private or public bonds, but by 'custody' only public custody.

Notes

  1. §50.16.224.prsignificant — The subject of the third-person plural verb significant is indefinite ('people' or 'jurists'). The same verb significant is understood as omitted in the second clause (custodiae uero...).
  2. §50.16.224.prUinculorum — The genitive Uinculorum (of bonds) is an appositional genitive (genitive of definition) modifying appellatione (by the term, ablative), meaning 'the term "bonds"'. In the second clause, custodiae (of custody, genitive) similarly modifies the omitted appellatione.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.224.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.224.pr

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