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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §6.2.8.pr

Payment of Price Not Required for the Publician Action

Passage 1159 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Gaius notes that since the edict makes no mention of the payment of the price, it can be inferred that actual payment is not intended by the praetor to be a requirement for the action.

[GAIUS libro septimo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §6.2.8.prDe pretio uero soluto nihil exprimitur: unde potest coniectura capi, quasi nec sententia praetoris ea sit, ut requiratur, an solutum sit pretium.
[GAIUS on the Provincial Edict, book 7] But nothing is expressed about the payment of the price; whence a conjecture can be made, as if it were not even the intention of the praetor that it should be required whether the price has been paid.

Notes

  1. 6.2.8.prsententia praetoris ea sit, ut requiratur — The demonstrative pronoun `ea` agrees in gender and number (feminine singular) with the subject of the clause `sententia`, and the subsequent `ut` clause (`ut requiratur...`) functions as a noun clause explaining the content of `ea`. Thus, it means "that such is the intention of the praetor, namely, that it should be required..." (negated by `nec`).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §6.2.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:6.2.8.pr

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