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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §14.3.18.pr

Definition of Institor with or without a Fixed Shop

Passage 2217 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The definition of a business manager (institor), explaining that it includes both those appointed to a specific shop or place for buying or selling, and those appointed for the same business without being attached to any particular location.

[IDEM libro singulari de uariis lectionibus. ] §14.3.18.prInstitor est, qui tabernae locoue ad emendum uendendumue praeponitur quique sine loco ad eundem actum praeponitur.
[THE SAME from his single book on Various Readings.] A business manager is one who is appointed over a shop or place for the purpose of buying or selling, and one who is appointed for the same transaction without a specific place.

Notes

  1. 14.3.18.prtabernae locoue — Dative forms functioning as the complement of the verb praeponitur (tabernae is the first declension feminine singular dative, and loco is the second declension masculine singular dative with the enclitic conjunction -ue 'or').
  2. 14.3.18.prad eundem actum — A prepositional phrase consisting of the preposition ad ('for') and the accusative eundem actum ('the same act/transaction'). 'The same act' refers back to ad emendum uendendumue ('buying or selling') in the preceding clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §14.3.18.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:14.3.18.pr

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