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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.148.pr

Attribution of Parts When the Whole Benefits All

Passage 9208 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This legal maxim states that if the overall effect of something benefits everyone, its individual parts also relate to everyone.

[PAULUS libro sexto decimo breuis edicti. ] §50.17.148.prCuius effectus omnibus prodest, eius et partes ad omnes pertinent.
[PAULUS, in the sixteenth book on the short edict.] That whose effect benefits everyone, its parts also pertain to everyone.

Notes

  1. §50.17.148.prCuius ... eius — The relative clause introduced by Cuius precedes the main clause containing its antecedent eius (prolepsis of the relative clause), functioning like a conditional sentence.
  2. §50.17.148.pret — Functions not as a conjunction ('and'), but as an adverb modifying the following noun partes, meaning 'also' or 'even'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.148.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.148.pr

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