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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §15.1.33.pr

Sale Price Received in Lieu of Peculium

Passage 2292 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that if a slave is sold on the condition of receiving the price in place of the peculium, the peculium is deemed to be in the possession of the person who received that price.

[IAUOLENUS libro duodecimo ex Cassio. ] §15.1.33.prSed si quis seruum ita uendidit, ut pretium pro peculio acciperet, penes eum uidetur esse peculium, ad quem pretium peculii peruenit,
[JAVOLENUS in the twelfth book from Cassius.]\n\nBut if anyone sold a slave in such a way that he received the price in place of the peculium, the peculium is deemed to be in the possession of him to whom the price of the peculium came.

Notes

  1. §15.1.33.prita uendidit, ut... acciperet — The construction ita... ut... introduces a restrictive or conditional consecutive clause, expressing the condition or manner of the sale ('in such a way that...'). The imperfect subjunctive acciperet is due to the sequence of tenses following the perfect uendidit.
  2. §15.1.33.prpenes eum... ad quem — The preposition penes (in the possession/power of) governs the accusative case, here taking eum. This eum is the antecedent of the relative pronoun quem in the relative clause ad quem pretium peculii peruenit.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §15.1.33.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:15.1.33.pr

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