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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §13.6.15.pr

Commodatum of Another's Property by Possessor

Passage 2130 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that one can lend a thing belonging to another that one possesses, even if one possesses it knowing that it is another's property.

[PAULUS libro uicensimo nono ad edictum. ] §13.6.15.prCommodare possumus etiam alienam rem, quam possidemus, tametsi scientes alienam possidemus,
[PAULUS in the twenty-ninth book on the Edict.] We can also lend a thing belonging to another which we possess, even if we possess it knowing that it belongs to another,

Notes

  1. §13.6.15.prscientes alienam possidemus — The word 'scientes' is the present participle nominative plural of 'scire' (to know), modifying the unexpressed subject of the verb 'possidemus' (we possess). 'alienam' is the feminine accusative singular of 'alienus', agreeing with the understood noun 'rem' (thing) as the object of 'possidemus'. Thus, the phrase means 'we possess another's property, knowing [it to be another's]'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §13.6.15.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:13.6.15.pr

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