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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §9.2.26.pr

Confession of Killing and High Assessment by Plaintiff

Passage 1542 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus presents a hypothetical case where the defendant confesses to the killing and is ready to pay, but the plaintiff estimates the value of the suit very highly.

[PAULUS libro uicensimo secundo ad edictum. ] §9.2.26.prPuta enim, quod qui conuenitur fateatur se occidisse et paratus sit aestimationem soluere, et aduersarius magni litem aestimat.
[PAULUS, from the twenty-second book on the Edict.] For suppose that the person who is sued confesses that he killed [the slave] and is prepared to pay the valuation, and [yet] his opponent values the suit at a high amount.

Notes

  1. §9.2.26.prPuta — The second-person singular imperative of putare ('to think'), used here to introduce a hypothetical scenario ('suppose, for example'). It governs the quod-clause with the subjunctives fateatur and paratus sit.
  2. §9.2.26.prmagni — A genitive of value, used with the verb aestimat to mean 'values at a high price' or 'estimates highly'.
  3. §9.2.26.praestimat — Unlike the preceding subjunctives fateatur and paratus sit in the quod-clause, this verb is in the present indicative. This shift indicates that the opponent's high valuation is presented as an objective fact placed in contrast, stepping outside the immediate syntactic dependency of the quod-clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §9.2.26.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:9.2.26.pr

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