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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §18.1.31.pr

Sale of Peculium and Return of Subsequent Accruals

Passage 2619 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It stipulates that in the sale of a peculium, any subsequent accrual to it, such as offspring or earnings from a subordinate slave's labor, must be returned to the seller.

[POMPONIUS libro uicensimo secundo ad Sabinum. ] §18.1.31.prSed et si quid postea accessit peculio, reddendum est uenditori, ueluti partus et quod ex operis uicarii perceptum est.
[POMPONIUS libro uicensimo secundo ad Sabinum.] But also, if anything has subsequently accrued to the peculium, it must be returned to the seller; for example, offspring, and what has been acquired from the labor of a subordinate slave.

Notes

  1. §18.1.31.pruenditori — Although accompanied by the gerundive `reddendum`, `uenditori` is not a dative of agent ("must be returned by the seller"), but rather the indirect object of the verb `reddo` ("must be returned to the seller"). The actual agent (the buyer) is omitted but understood from the context.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §18.1.31.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:18.1.31.pr

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