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- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
It states the legal rule that a person who stipulated for a block of flats to be built in Capua within a specified time may, after the expiration of that period, sue for damages in any place whatsoever.
[IDEM libro uicensimo septimo quaestionum.]
[THE SAME, Questions, Book XXVII.]
Eum, qui insulam1 Capuae2 fieri certo tempore stipulatus est, eo finito3 quocumque loco agere posse in id quod interest4 constat.
It is established that a person who has stipulated for a block of flats to be built at Capua within a certain time can, when that time has expired, bring an action in any place whatsoever for the amount of his interest.
- 5.1.43.prinsulam
Although "insula" literally means "island", in the context of Roman law and architecture it refers to a "block of flats" or "apartment building".
- 5.1.43.prCapuae
The genitive singular form of Capua (first declension, feminine), functioning here as a locative to mean "at Capua".
- 5.1.43.preo finito
An ablative absolute construction consisting of the demonstrative pronoun "eo" (referring back to "certo tempore") and the perfect passive participle "finito" (from "finire"), meaning "when that [time] has expired".
- 5.1.43.prin id quod interest
Literally "into that which is of interest [to him]", a standard legal idiom referring to "the amount of one's interest" or "damages for non-performance".