[SCAEUOLA libro quinto quaestionum. ] §50.17.88.prNulla intellegitur mora ibi fieri, ubi nulla petitio est.
[SCAEVOLA, from his fifth book of Questions.] No delay is understood to occur where there is no petition.
Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.88.pr
Absence of Mora Where No Demand or Claim Exists
Summary
States the legal principle that no delay (mora) is understood to have occurred when no active petition or claim has been made.
Notes
- §50.17.88.prNulla intellegitur mora ... fieri — An instance of the Nominativus cum Infinitivo (nominative with infinitive) construction. The feminine nominative singular 'nulla mora' acts as the subject of the passive verb 'intellegitur' with the infinitive 'fieri' (present infinitive of fio, 'to happen' or 'to occur'). Literally, 'No delay is understood to occur.'
- §50.17.88.pribi ... ubi — A pair of correlative adverbs meaning 'there (ibi)... where (ubi)...'. Here, 'ibi' points forward to the relative clause introduced by 'ubi nulla petitio est' ('where there is no petition'), defining the condition or scope under which no delay is deemed to exist.
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