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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §14.4.2.pr

Master's Ownership of Peculium Goods as a Requirement

Passage 2221 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus restricts the application of the tributory action by stating that the merchandise traded as part of the peculium must belong to the master or usufructuary.

[PAULUS libro trigensimo ad edictum. ] §14.4.2.prut tamen merx, qua peculiariter negotietur, ad nos pertineat.
[PAULUS, from the thirtieth book on the Edict.] provided, however, that the merchandise with which he trades as part of his peculium belongs to us.

Notes

  1. §14.4.2.prut tamen merx... ad nos pertineat — The conjunction ut is used here in a restrictive or conditional sense (ut limitativum), imposing a condition ('provided however that...') on the preceding statement by Ulpian (§14.4.1.5). This structure arises because the compilers joined texts from different authors.
  2. §14.4.2.prqua — Ablative feminine singular of the relative pronoun qui, referring back to merx. It is in the ablative because the verb negotiari (to trade) takes an ablative of instrument or material.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §14.4.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:14.4.2.pr

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