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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §18.1.32.pr

Sale of Booths on Public Land and Transfer of Use Rights

Passage 2620 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that in the sale of booths on public ground, what is sold is not the soil itself, but the right of use, since the property is public.

[ULPIANUS libro quadragensimo quarto ad Sabinum. ] §18.1.32.prQui tabernas argentarias uel ceteras quae in solo publico sunt uendit, non solum, sed ius uendit, cum istae tabernae publicae sunt, quarum usus ad priuatos pertinet.
[ULPIANUS libro quadragensimo quarto ad Sabinum.] He who sells banking booths or other booths which are on public ground does not sell the soil, but the right, since those booths are public, the use of which belongs to private individuals.

Notes

  1. §18.1.32.prnon solum, sed ius uendit — solum is not the adverb meaning "only" (as in "non solum"), but the accusative singular of the noun solum (soil, ground). Thus, the phrase means "does not sell the soil, but sells the right," with the verb uendit being understood in the first clause (non solum [uendit]).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §18.1.32.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:18.1.32.pr

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