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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.45.pr

Distinction of Garments and Bedding in Sustenance

Passage 8859 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian cites Labeo to define how garments and bed-clothings are to be interpreted and classified under the legal categories of 'bedding' (stratus) and 'sustenance' (uictus).

[ULPIANUS libro quinquagensimo octauo ad edictum. ] §50.16.45.prIn 'stratu' omne uestimentum contineri quod iniciatur Labeo ait: neque enim dubium est, quin stragula uestis sit omne pallium, περίστρωμα.
[ULPIAN, in the fifty-eighth book on the Edict.] Labeo says that under bedding is included every garment which is thrown over; for indeed there is no doubt that every cloak, that is, a covering, is bed-clothing.
in uictu ergo uestem accipiemus non stragulam, in stratu omnem stragulam uestem.
Therefore, under sustenance we shall understand clothing that is not bed-clothing, and under bedding, all bed-clothing.

Notes

  1. §50.16.45.prstratu — Ablative singular of the noun stratus (bedding, coverlet), governed by the preposition in, referring here to the legal category of 'bedding'.
  2. §50.16.45.prquin stragula uestis sit — A quin clause introduced by the negated expression of doubt neque enim dubium est (there is no doubt), taking the subjunctive present sit.
  3. §50.16.45.praccipiemus — First-person plural future active indicative of the verb accipio (to receive, to understand). In legal discourse, it denotes a normative decision to interpret or understand a term in a specific way.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.45.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.45.pr

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