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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.140.pr

Protection against Disadvantages from Public Absence

Passage 9200 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The principle that the absence of a person who is away on public business must not cause disadvantage either to themselves or to others.

[ULPIANUS libro quinquagensimo sexto ad edictum. ] §50.17.140.prAbsentia eius, qui rei publicae causa abest, neque ei neque alii damnosa esse debet.
[ULPIAN, in the fifty-sixth book on the edict.] The absence of him who is absent on account of the state ought to be damaging neither to him nor to another.

Notes

  1. §50.17.140.prrei publicae causa — The ablative of the noun causa, accompanied by the preceding genitive rei publicae (from res publica, 'state' or 'public business'), functions as a postposition meaning 'for the sake of' or 'by reason of'.
  2. §50.17.140.prei ... alii — These are datives functioning as complements to the adjective damnosa ('damaging' or 'disadvantageous'), indicating the parties to whom the disadvantage would occur ('neither to him nor to another').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.140.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.140.pr

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