- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.3.37.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-08
While a seller's mere puffery to recommend goods has no legal force, statements made with the intent to deceive the buyer do not give rise to a contract-based action but rather to an action on fraud.
[ULPIANUS libro quadragensimo quarto ad Sabinum.]
[ULPIANUS, in the forty-fourth book on Sabinus.]
Quod uenditor ut commendet1 dicit, sic habendum, quasi neque dictum neque promissum est. si uero decipiendi emptoris causa2 dictum est, aeque sic habendum est, ut non nascatur3 aduersus dictum promissumue actio, sed de dolo actio.
What a seller says in order to recommend his goods must be so regarded as if it had been neither said nor promised. But if it was said for the purpose of deceiving the buyer, it must equally be so regarded that an action does not arise on the statement or promise, but an action on fraud.
- 4.3.37.prut commendet
A purpose clause introduced by ut with the subjunctive present third-person singular verb commendet, showing the subjective intent of the seller to recommend the goods.
- 4.3.37.prdecipiendi emptoris causa
A gerundive construction expressing purpose, where the genitive gerundive decipiendi agrees with the noun emptoris, used in combination with the ablative causa.
- 4.3.37.prut non nascatur
A substantive or result clause introduced by ut that defines the specific consequence or content of aeque sic habendum est ("it must equally be so regarded").