Latin quotes by Ulpian

Ulpian (c. 170 – 223), Roman Jurist

Gnaeus Domitius Annius Ulpianus

He wrote about 300 law booksincluding: Ad Sabinum (50 books on civil law), Ad Edictum (83 books on Edicts), and De officio proconsulis (on criminal law)..

1. Confessus pro iudicato habetur - The confessed is held as judged (Legal term - Ulpianus - Digest 42,1,56)
2. Dolo malo non videtur habere qui suo iure utitur - The one who exercises his right does not have bad intentions (Legal term - Domitius Ulpianus - Digest 43,29,3,2)
3. Honeste vivere, alterum non laedere cuique suum tribuere - To live honestly, to harm no other, to render to each his own (Legal term - Domitius Ulpianus - Justinian, Institutes 1.1)
4. In Cogitationem nemo Patitur - In ideas there is no punishment (Legal term - Domitius Ulpianus - Digest 48.19.18)
5. Invitus nemo rem cogitur defendere - Nobody will be forced to defend the object (Legal term - Domitius Ulpianus - Digest 50,17,156 - )
6. Iurisprudentia est divinarum atque humanarum rerum notitia, iusti atque iniusti scientia - The case law is the knowledge of the things divine and human, the science of what is right and what is unjust (Legal term - Domitius Ulpianus - Digest 1,1,10,2)
7. Ius reipublicae pacto mutari non potest - The public law can not be changed by agreement of individuals (Legal term - Domitius Ulpianus - Digest 50,8,2,8)
8. Iustitia est constans et perpetua voluntas ius suum cuique tribuendi - Justice is the constant and perpetual will to give each his right (Legal term - Domitius Ulpianus)
9. Mores sunt tacitus consensus populi longa consuetudine inveteratus - The customs are tacit agreements made by the consensus of the people over a long interval - (Legal term Domitius Ulpianus)
10. Nam cum iudicatur rem meam esse, simul iudicatur illius non esse - When it is judged that the object is mine, it is judged that it belongs to nobody else (Legal term - Domitius Ulpianus - Digest 3,3,40,2)
11. Nam, ut eleganter Celsus definit, ius est ars boni et aequi - As Celsus elegantly defined it, the law is the art of good and fair (Legal term - Domitius Ulpianus - The phrase "Ius est ars boni et Aequi" belongs to Celsus’s son - Ulpianus Digest Domitius collected 1,1,1)
12. Nemo alieno nomine lege agere potest - No one outside (the cause) may act on behalf of the law (Legal term - Domitius Ulpianus - Digest 50,17,123 - )
13. Nemo plus iuris ad alium tranferre potest, quam ipse habere - No one can convey a larger right, than what he has (Legal term - Domitius Ulpianus - Digest, 50, 17, 54 - )
14. Nihil consensui tam contrarium est, quam vis atque metus: quem comprobare contra bonos mores est - There is nothing so contrary to consent as violence and fear, so if a valid consent given, this would be flawed by morality (Legal term - Domitius Ulpianus - Digest, 50, 17, 116 pr -)
15. Per sententiam non debet servitus constitui sed quae declarari - There must not be a (new) sentence served, but it must be declared (Domitius Ulpianus - Digest 8,5,84)
16. Quod si dolo possesoris fugerit dammandum eum, quasi possideret - If the defendent committed fraud and lost the object, he will be demanded as if he still had it (Legal term of Domitius Ulpian, Digest 6.1,22 )
17. Res iudicata pro veritate accipitur - The thing judged is considered certain (Legal term - Once something was decided by a court or a judged, it should not be re-submitted - Ulpian Digest 1,5,25)
18. Sed cum ambo iudicium provocat, sorte res discerni solet - However, when both initiated the trial, usually fate decides (Legal term - Dominitius Ulpian Digest 5,1,14)
19. Ultra posse nemo obligatur - Nobody is forced to do the impossible (Legal Term - Ulpian - The obligations do not extend beyond the capabilities)
20. Vim vi reppelere licet - It is lawful to repel force by force (Roman aphorism, that the jurist Ulpian Domicio attributed to Senator Cassius (85-42 BC) - Digest 43,16,3,9)

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