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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §9.3.2.pr

Difficulty in Identifying the Actor in Actions for Effusion

Passage 1576 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains the reason why it is practically impossible to determine which of the co-inhabitants threw down or poured out the object.

[GAIUS libro sexto ad edictum prouinciale. ] §9.3.2.prcum sane impossibile est scire, quis deiecisset uel effudisset,
[GAIUS in the sixth book on the Provincial Edict.] since indeed it is impossible to know who had thrown down or poured out,

Notes

  1. 9.3.2.prcum ... est — The conjunction cum is used here to express cause ("since"), and it takes the indicative mood (est) instead of the usual subjunctive to emphasize an objective fact.
  2. 9.3.2.prquis deiecisset uel effudisset — This is an indirect question clause introduced by the interrogative pronoun quis, in which the verbs are in the pluperfect subjunctive (deiecisset, effudisset). It represents a completed action in the past relative to the present tense (est) of the main clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §9.3.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:9.3.2.pr

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