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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §17.2.2.pr

Immediate Ownership through Tacit Delivery in Universal Partnership

Passage 2504 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that the reason why property is immediately shared in a partnership of all goods is that a tacit delivery is deemed to have taken place even in the absence of a specific physical transfer.

[GAIUS libro decimo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §17.2.2.prquia, licet specialiter traditio non interueniat, tacita tamen creditur interuenire.
[GAIUS in his tenth book on the Provincial Edict] for, although a specific delivery does not take place, a tacit one is nevertheless believed to take place.

Notes

  1. 17.2.2.prlicet ... interueniat — The conjunction licet introduces a concessive clause ('although', 'even if') and takes the subjunctive mood, here the third-person singular present subjunctive interueniat.
  2. 17.2.2.prtacita tamen creditur interuenire — The verb creditur ('is believed/deemed') forms a nominative with infinitive (NcI) construction. Its subject is the implied noun traditio, which is modified by the feminine singular nominative adjective tacita. The infinitive interuenire completes the construction: 'a tacit delivery is believed to intervene'. Tacita, while grammatically agreeing with the subject, functions virtually as an adverb ('tacitly').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §17.2.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:17.2.2.pr

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