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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §18.1.17.pr

Purchase by Usufructuary and Price Reduction

Passage 2605 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It rules that if the buyer already holds the usufruct of the property, the price will be reduced through the office of the judge.

[PAULUS libro trigensimo tertio ad edictum. ] §18.1.17.profficio tamen iudicis pretium minuetur.
[PAULUS, in the thirty-third book on the edict.] However, the price will be reduced by the office of the judge.

Notes

  1. §18.1.17.profficio iudicis — Ablative of means. Following the statement of Pomponius in D. 18.1.16.1, this indicates that when a buyer purchases the ownership of a property in which they already hold the usufruct (usus fructus), the price (pretium) will be reduced (minuetur) through the discretionary power of the judge (officium iudicis) by the value of that usufruct.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §18.1.17.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:18.1.17.pr

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