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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §18.1.18.pr-18.1.18.1

Purchase of Common Property and Boundary Demarcation by Slaves

Passage 2606 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The validity of a sale when the thing is held in common by the buyer and another, and the legal effect when a slave exceeds instructions in demonstrating boundaries or delivering possession.

[POMPONIUS libro nono ad Sabinum. ] §18.1.18.prSed si communis ea res emptori cum alio sit, dici debet scisso pretio pro portione pro parte emptionem ualere, pro parte non ualere.
[POMPONIUS, in the ninth book on Sabinus.] But if that thing is common to the buyer with another, it ought to be said that, the price being divided in proportion, the purchase is valid for a part, and for a part it is not valid.
§18.1.18.1Si seruus domini iussu in demonstrandis finibus agri uenditi uel errore uel dolo plus demonstrauerit, id tamen demonstratum accipi oportet, quod dominus senserit: et idem Alfenus scripsit de uacua possessione per seruum tradita.
If a slave, by order of his master, in pointing out the boundaries of the land sold, has pointed out more either by mistake or by fraud, nevertheless only that ought to be accepted as pointed out which the master intended; and Alfenus wrote the same regarding vacant possession delivered by a slave.

Notes

  1. §18.1.18.prscisso pretio — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the perfect participle scissus and the noun pretium, meaning 'the price being split' or divided in proportion (pro portione) to the respective shares.
  2. §18.1.18.1id tamen demonstratum — The pronoun id is the antecedent modified by the relative clause quod dominus senserit (what the master intended). The perfect participle demonstratum is in the neuter singular, functioning predicatively with the passive infinitive accipi ('ought to be accepted as pointed out').
  3. §18.1.18.1de uacua possessione per seruum tradita — The noun phrase uacua possessio (vacant possession, free from third-party interference) and the perfect participle tradita are governed by the preposition de. Although tradita grammatically agrees with the noun, semantically it denotes the act or fact: 'concerning the delivery of vacant possession by a slave.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §18.1.18.pr-18.1.18.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:18.1.18.pr-18.1.18.1

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