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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §17.1.35.pr

Mandate to Buy Land Co-Owned by the Mandatary

Passage 2475 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses the validity of a mandate to buy land that is partly owned by the mandatary, and how the price of the mandatary's own share is determined depending on whether a certain price was fixed.

[NERATIUS libro quinto membranarum. ] §17.1.35.prSi fundum, qui ex parte tuus est, mandaui tibi ut emeres mihi, uerum est mandatum posse ita consistere, ut mihi ceteris partibus redemptis etiam tuam partem praestare debeas.
[NERATIUS, Parchments, Book V.] If I commissioned you to buy for me a tract of land which is partly yours, it is true that a mandate can be so established that, after the other shares have been bought up, you must also deliver your own share to me.
sed si quidem certo pretio emendas eas mandauerim, quanticumque aliorum partes redemeris, sic et tua pars coartabitur, ut non abundet mandati quantitatem, in quam tibi emendum totum mandaui: sin autem nullo certo pretio constituto emere tibi mandauerim tuque ex diuersis pretiis partes ceterorum redemeris, et tuam partem uiri boni arbitratu aestimato pretio dari oportet,
But if indeed I commissioned you to buy them at a certain price, however much you may have bought up the shares of the others, your own share will be so limited that it does not exceed the amount of the mandate in which I commissioned you to buy the whole. If, however, I commissioned you to buy without any certain price being fixed, and you bought up the shares of the others at various prices, your own share must also be delivered at a price estimated by the judgment of an honest man.

Notes

  1. 17.1.35.prceteris partibus redemptis — Ablative absolute, expressing the prior condition or circumstance under which the obligation in the main clause (praestare debeas) arises.
  2. 17.1.35.prabundet — The verb abundo (usually intransitive, 'to overflow') is used transitively here with the accusative quantitatem, meaning 'to exceed' or 'to go beyond'.
  3. 17.1.35.pruiri boni arbitratu aestimato pretio — Two ablative phrases are juxtaposed. uiri boni arbitratu is an ablative of manner or accordance ('by the judgment of an honest man'), while aestimato pretio is an ablative of price ('at an estimated price').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §17.1.35.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:17.1.35.pr

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