Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §9.2.53.pr

Action on the Case for Driving Another's Oxen to Fall

Passage 1570 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is discussed that if someone drives another's oxen into a narrow place causing them to fall, an action on the case (actio in factum) modeled on the Lex Aquilia is granted.

[NERATIUS libro primo membranarum. ] §9.2.53.prBoues alienos in angustum locum coegisti eoque effectum est, ut deicerentur: datur in te ad exemplum legis aquiliae in factum actio.

[NERATIUS, in the first book of Parchments.] You drove another's oxen into a narrow place, and thereby it was brought about that they fell down: an action on the case (in factum) is given against you after the model of the Lex Aquilia.

Notes

9.2.53.preoque — This is the ablative neuter singular of the demonstrative pronoun eo with the enclitic conjunction -que, meaning "and thereby" or "and by this." It refers back to the action of the preceding clause as the cause.
9.2.53.prad exemplum legis aquiliae in factum actio — Indicates that because there is no direct physical contact (failing to satisfy the 'corpore corpori' requirement), the Lex Aquilia itself is not directly applicable, but the praetor grants an action on the case (actio in factum) by analogy, extending the principle of the statute.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §9.2.53.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:9.2.53.pr

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