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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §9.2.56.pr

Action Under the Lex Aquilia Against a Wife Damaging Her Husband's Property

Passage 1573 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that if a wife causes damage to her husband's property, she is sued under the Lex Aquilia.

[IDEM libro secundo sententiarum. ] §9.2.56.prMulier si in rem uiri damnum dederit, pro tenore legis Aquiliae conuenitur.
[THE SAME, in the second book of Opinions.] If a wife causes damage to her husband's property, she is sued according to the tenor of the Lex Aquilia.

Notes

  1. 9.2.56.prin rem uiri — The preposition in with the accusative rem indicates the object to which the damage (damnum) is done, meaning "to the husband's property."
  2. 9.2.56.prpro tenore — Composed of the preposition pro ("according to") and the ablative of tenor, which in legal contexts refers to the "tenor," "substance," or "purview" of a law. It means "according to the tenor of the Lex Aquilia."
  3. 9.2.56.prconuenitur — Rather than the intransitive meaning "to assemble," this is the third-person singular present passive of the transitive conuenire ("to sue," "to summon"), used in a technical legal sense meaning "she is sued" or "summoned to court as a defendant."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §9.2.56.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:9.2.56.pr

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