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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §18.2.7.pr

Better Offer and Opportunity for Prior Buyer to Match

Passage 2676 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that when a better term is offered, the seller may award the property to the subsequent purchaser, unless the first purchaser is prepared to make a higher bid.

[PAULUS libro quinto ad Sabinum. ] §18.2.7.prLicet autem uenditori meliore allata condicione addicere posteriori, nisi prior paratus sit plus adicere.
[PAULUS, on Sabinus, book 5.] Furthermore, when a better term is offered, the seller is permitted to adjudge the property to the subsequent purchaser, unless the first purchaser is prepared to add more.

Notes

  1. §18.2.7.prmeliore allata condicione — 'meliore... condicione' is the ablative of the noun 'conditio' and the adjective 'melior', and 'allata' is the perfect passive participle of 'affero' in the feminine singular ablative, forming an ablative absolute construction. It expresses a condition: 'when a better term is offered'.
  2. §18.2.7.praddicere — An infinitive functioning as the subject of the impersonal verb 'licet' (it is permitted). Its logical subject is the dative 'uenditori', and the direct object (the property being sold) is omitted in the context. 'addicere' means 'to adjudge' or 'to award'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §18.2.7.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:18.2.7.pr

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