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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §13.6.9.pr

Reason Why Lending Does Not Transfer Ownership

Passage 2124 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains the legal reason why lending a thing does not transfer its ownership to the borrower.

[ULPIANUS libro secundo ad edictum. ] §13.6.9.prnemo enim commodando rem facit eius cui commodat.
[ULPIANUS in the second book on the edict] For no one, by lending, makes a thing the property of him to whom he lends it.

Notes

  1. §13.6.9.prfacit eius — The genitive eius serves as a predicate complement to facit, meaning 'makes [the object rem] his (or his property)'. eius also functions as the antecedent of the relative pronoun cui.
  2. §13.6.9.prcommodando — The ablative of the gerund of the verb commodare, expressing means ('by lending').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §13.6.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:13.6.9.pr

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