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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §18.2.3.pr

Risk of Loss and Better Offers After Destruction

Passage 2672 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that the risk of the property's destruction falls on the buyer because after its destruction, there is no longer any possibility of a better offer being made.

[PAULUS libro quinto ad Sabinum. ] §18.2.3.prquoniam post interitum rei iam nec adferri possit melior condicio.
[PAULUS, on Sabinus, book 5.] since after the destruction of the property, a better offer can no longer be made.

Notes

  1. §18.2.3.prpossit — The present subjunctive possit is used in the causal clause introduced by quoniam, instead of the indicative potest. This is either because it continues the indirect speech (oratio obliqua) from Julian's opinion in the preceding chunk (Iulianus scribit...), or to express a logical or potential possibility rather than a mere objective fact.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §18.2.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:18.2.3.pr

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