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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.204.pr

Having an Action Versus Having the Thing Itself

Passage 9264 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius discusses the comparison of value between having a right of action and having the thing itself.

[IDEM libro uicesimo octauo ad Quintum Mucium. ] §50.17.204.prMinus est actionem habere quam rem.
[THE SAME, in his twenty-eighth book on Quintus Mucius.] Having a right of action is less than having the thing itself.

Notes

  1. 50.17.204.prMinus est actionem habere quam rem — Minus is a neuter comparative adjective functioning as a predicate, agreeing in gender, number, and case with the subject infinitive clause actionem habere. rem is in the accusative, serving as the object of an implied infinitive habere after the comparative conjunction quam.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.204.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.204.pr

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