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- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-12
Ulpian discusses the limits of exercising an action in rem in sales subject to a rescission clause upon a better offer, and further explains the availability of the action when a slave, a filius familias, or a procurator disposes of property with the owner's consent.
[ULPIANUS libro septimo decimo ad edictum.]
[ULPIAN, in the seventeenth book on the Edict.]
Si quis hac lege emerit, ut, si alius meliorem condicionem attulerit, recedatur ab emptione,1 post allatam condicionem iam non potest in rem actione uti. sed et si cui in diem addictus sit fundus, antequam adiectio sit facta, uti in rem actione potest: postea non poterit.
If anyone has purchased under the condition that, if another person should bring a better offer, the purchase shall be rescinded, after the better offer has been brought, he can no longer use an action in rem. But also, if a tract of land has been provisionally assigned to someone, before an addition to the price is made, he can use an action in rem, but afterwards he will not be able to do so.
Si seruus mihi uel filius familias fundum uendidit et tradidit habens liberam peculii administrationem, in rem actione uti potero. sed et si domini uoluntate domini rem2 tradat, idem erit dicendum: quemadmodum cum procurator uoluntate domini uendidit uel tradidit, in rem actionem mihi praestabit.3
If a slave or a filius familias, having the free administration of his peculium, has sold and delivered a tract of land to me, I will be able to use an action in rem. But also, if he delivers the owner’s property by the will of the owner, the same must be said; just as when a procurator has sold or delivered by the will of the owner, he will afford me an action in rem.
- 6.1.41.prhac lege ... ut ... recedatur ab emptione
The ut-clause is an appositive clause explaining the content of 'hac lege' (under this condition). 'recedatur' is an impersonal passive meaning 'withdrawal is made from the purchase' (i.e., the contract is rescinded).
- 6.1.41.1domini uoluntate domini rem
The genitive 'domini' appears twice in succession: the first modifies 'uoluntate' (by the will of the owner), and the second modifies 'rem' (the property of the owner).
- 6.1.41.1in rem actionem mihi praestabit
The subject of 'praestabit' is the situation described in the cum-clause (or the procurator), meaning that it will afford or guarantee an action in rem to 'mihi' (dative; to me).