Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §6.1.73.pr-6.1.73.1

Plaintiff's Duty to Specify Shares and Superficies

Passage 1144 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

In specific in rem actions and the Publician action, the possessor is not required to declare their share, as this burden lies with the plaintiff; followed by the beginning of a provision regarding the superficiary.

[IDEM libro septimo decimo ad edictum. ] §6.1.73.prIn speciali actione non cogitur possessor dicere, pro qua parte eius sit: hoc enim petitoris munus est, non possessoris: quod et in Publiciana obseruatur. §6.1.73.1Superficiario,

[THE SAME in the seventeenth book on the Edict.]\n\nIn a special action, the possessor is not compelled to state what share of the property belongs to him; for this is the duty of the plaintiff, not of the possessor; which is also observed in the Publician action.\n\nTo a superficiary,

Notes

6.1.73.prpro qua parte eius sit — The genitive 'eius' is neuter singular, referring to the disputed property (res). The subject of 'sit' is the third-person singular possessor, meaning 'for what share of it belongs to him (the possessor)'.
6.1.73.prquod et in Publiciana — The adjective 'Publiciana' is in the feminine ablative singular, with the noun 'actione' being understood, referring to the 'Publician action'.
6.1.73.1Superficiario — A masculine dative or ablative singular. Here it functions as a dative, 'To/for a superficiary' (one who holds a right to a building on another's land), modifying the main predicate of section 1, which continues in the next fragment.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §6.1.73.pr-6.1.73.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:6.1.73.pr-6.1.73.1

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