- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-14
It discusses what legal actions a seller can take if they agreed to establish a servitude on one of two buildings during sale but failed to mention it during delivery.
[MARCIANUS libro tertio regularum.]
[MARCIANUS, in the third book of Rules.]
Si binarum aedium dominus dixisset eas quas uenderet seruas fore,1 sed in traditione non fecisset mentionem seruitutis, uel ex uendito agere potest2 uel incertum condicere, ut seruitus imponatur.
If the owner of two buildings had declared that those which he was selling should be servient, but in the delivery he made no mention of the servitude, he can either sue on the sale or bring a condictio for an uncertain thing, so that the servitude may be imposed.
- 8.2.35.preas quas uenderet seruas fore
The accusative pronoun eas refers to the buildings being sold (part of aedium) and acts as the subject accusative of the infinitive fore, with seruas as a predicative accusative. The verb uenderet in the relative clause quas uenderet is in the subjunctive imperfect due to virtual oblique clause inside indirect speech dependent on dixisset.
- 8.2.35.prdixisset ... potest
While the conditional clause (Si... dixisset... non fecisset...) uses the pluperfect subjunctive, the main verb of the apodosis is in the present indicative (potest). This is a standard stylistic feature in Roman legal texts to present the resulting legal remedy or possibility as an objective fact.