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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.113.pr

Rule That the Whole Contains the Part

Passage 9173 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Gaius states the legal maxim regarding the relationship between the whole and its parts, noting that the part is contained within the whole.

[GAIUS libro tertio ad edictum prouinciale. ] §50.17.113.prIn toto et pars continetur.
[GAIUS in the third book on the provincial edict.] In the whole, the part is also contained.

Notes

  1. §50.17.113.pret — The conjunction et is used here adverbially in the sense of etiam ('also', 'even') modifying the subject pars ('part'), rather than as a coordinating conjunction ('and').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.113.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.113.pr

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