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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §18.1.16.pr-18.1.16.1

Invalidity of Buying Own Property and Exception for Usufruct

Passage 2604 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius explains that the purchase of one's own property is generally invalid and payment made in ignorance can be recovered, but a purchase is permitted if the buyer only holds the usufruct of the property.

[POMPONIUS libro nono ad Sabinum. ] §18.1.16.prSuae rei emptio non ualet, siue sciens siue ignorans emi: sed si ignorans emi, quod soluero repetere potero, quia nulla obligatio fuit.
[POMPONIUS, in the ninth book on Sabinus.] The purchase of one's own property is invalid, whether I bought it knowingly or in ignorance; but if I bought it in ignorance, I will be able to recover what I have paid, because no obligation existed.
§18.1.16.1Nec tamen emptioni obstat, si in ea re usus fructus dumtaxat ementis sit:
However, it does not stand in the way of a purchase if only the usufruct in that property belongs to the buyer.

Notes

  1. §18.1.16.premi — The first-person singular perfect active indicative of the verb emo. The jurist uses himself as the subject to present a concrete case.
  2. §18.1.16.prsoluero — The first-person singular future perfect active indicative of the verb soluo. It indicates an action (payment) that will have been completed prior to the time of the main verb potero (future tense) in the consequent clause.
  3. §18.1.16.1ementis — The genitive singular of the present participle emens ('the buyer'). Used with the copula sit, it functions as a predicative genitive of possession ('belongs to the buyer').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §18.1.16.pr-18.1.16.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:18.1.16.pr-18.1.16.1

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