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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.45.pr-50.17.45.1

Acts over One's Own Property and Primacy of Public Law

Passage 9105 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage states the principle that legal acts such as pledge or purchase cannot be established over one's own property, and that private agreements cannot derogate from public law.

[IDEM libro trigensimo ad edictum. ] §50.17.45.prNeque pignus neque depositum neque precarium neque emptio neque locatio rei suae consistere potest.
[THE SAME, in his thirtieth book on the Edict.] Neither pledge, nor deposit, nor precarium, nor purchase, nor lease of one's own property can be valid.
§50.17.45.1Priuatorum conuentio iuri publico non derogat.
An agreement of private persons does not derogate from public law.

Notes

  1. 50.17.45.prrei suae — It functions as an objective genitive and modifies all the preceding listed nouns (pignus, depositum, precarium, emptio, locatio), meaning "in respect of one's own property".
  2. 50.17.45.prconsistere potest — Although multiple subjects are connected by neque... neque, the verb potest is in the singular, agreeing with each subject individually to emphasize that none of them can stand.
  3. 50.17.45.1iuri publico — The dative case governed by the verb derogat (derogare, meaning "to repeal in part, restrict, or derogate from").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.45.pr-50.17.45.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.45.pr-50.17.45.1

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