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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.43.pr-50.17.43.1

Use of Multiple Defenses and Election Among Actions

Passage 9103 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian states that defendants may use other defenses unless barred by law, and that when multiple actions concur for the same matter, one must proceed with only one action.

[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo octauo ad edictum. ] §50.17.43.prNemo ex his, qui negant se debere, prohibetur etiam alia defensione uti, nisi lex impedit.
[ULPIAN, in his twenty-eighth book on the Edict.] No one of those who deny that they owe is prohibited from using also another defense, unless the law prevents it.
§50.17.43.1Quotiens concurrunt plures actiones eiusdem rei nomine, una quis experiri debet.
Whenever several actions concur in respect of the same matter, each person ought to try with only one.

Notes

  1. §50.17.43.prdefensione uti — The deponent verb utor (to use) governs the ablative case (here defensione) instead of the accusative.
  2. §50.17.43.1una — Ablative feminine singular of the numeral/adjective unus (one), with the feminine noun actione (by an action) understood from the preceding clause's plures actiones.
  3. §50.17.43.1quis — The indefinite pronoun quis (anyone, someone), used instead of aliquis after conditional conjunctions or quotiens, here meaning 'each person' or 'anyone'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.43.pr-50.17.43.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.43.pr-50.17.43.1

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