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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §6.2.3.pr-6.2.3.1

Just Causes Grounding the Publician Action

Passage 1154 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpianus shows that the 'just cause' grounding the Publician action takes various forms, explaining that delivery as a dowry or on the basis of a judgment qualifies as such.

[ULPIANUS libro sexto decimo ad edictum. ] §6.2.3.prSunt et aliae pleraeque.
[ULPIANUS on the Edict, book 16.] There are also many other causes.
§6.2.3.1Ait praetor: 'ex iusta causa petet. ' qui igitur iustam causam traditionis habet, utitur Publiciana: et non solum emptori bonae fidei competit Publiciana, sed et aliis, ut puta ei cui dotis nomine tradita res est necdum usucapta: est enim iustissima causa, siue aestimata res in dotem data sit siue non.
The praetor says: 'he shall claim on the basis of a just cause.' Therefore, he who has a just cause for delivery uses the Publician action. And the Publician action is available not only to a buyer in good faith, but also to others, for instance, to one to whom a thing was delivered as a dowry and has not yet been acquired by usucapion; for it is a most just cause, whether the appraised thing was given as a dowry or not.
item si res ex causa iudicati sit tradita
Likewise, if a thing has been delivered on the basis of a judgment.

Notes

  1. 6.2.3.1petet — Third-person singular, future active indicative. It expresses a command or permission in the words of the praetor's edict ('he shall claim'). The unexpressed subject is the unspecified claimant who received delivery and lost possession.
  2. 6.2.3.1siue aestimata res in dotem data sit siue non — A correlative construction 'siue ... siue' (whether ... or). In Roman law, whether a thing given as a dowry (dos) is appraised (res aestimata) or not leads to different legal effects (especially regarding risk), but here it indicates that in either case, the delivery on account of a dowry is recognized as a 'most just cause' (iustissima causa).
  3. 6.2.3.1item si res ex causa iudicati sit tradita — The apodosis (main clause) corresponding to this conditional clause (si-clause) is omitted. From the preceding context (utitur Publiciana / competit Publiciana), we should supply the meaning 'likewise, if a thing has been delivered on the basis of a judgment, [the Publician action is available]'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §6.2.3.pr-6.2.3.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:6.2.3.pr-6.2.3.1

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