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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.100.pr

Dissolution of Legal Acts by Contrary Procedure

Passage 9160 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text states the fundamental Roman law principle that a legal relationship established by a certain legal process must be dissolved by the opposite legal process.

[GAIUS libro primo regularum. ] §50.17.100.prOmnia, quae iure contrahuntur, contrario iure pereunt.
[GAIUS, from his first book of Rules.] All things which are contracted by law perish by the contrary law.

Notes

  1. §50.17.100.priure — Ablative of means or manner, meaning "by law" or "by legal means." Here it refers to the process by which a legally valid relationship is established.
  2. §50.17.100.prcontrario iure — Meaning "by the contrary law" or "by the opposite process." Contrasted with the preceding "iure," it indicates the principle that to extinguish a legal effect, one must use an equivalent means (an opposite process) to that which created it.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.100.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.100.pr

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