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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §18.4.3.pr

Seller's Non-Liability for Inadvertent Loss of Collected Funds

Passage 2701 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that the seller of an inheritance is not liable to the buyer if he loses the collected money without fraud or fault.

[POMPONIUS libro uicensimo septimo ad Sabinum. ] §18.4.3.prSi uenditor hereditatis exactam pecuniam sine dolo malo et culpa perdidisset, non placet eum emptori teneri.
[POMPONIUS, on Sabinus, book 27.] If the seller of an inheritance has lost the collected money without fraud and fault, it is not held that he is liable to the buyer.

Notes

  1. 18.4.3.prexactam pecuniam — Meaning 'money collected' or 'money exacted.' The perfect passive participle of exigere (to collect/exact), referring to the money that the seller had already collected from the hereditary debtors.
  2. 18.4.3.prnon placet eum emptori teneri — The impersonal expression non placet (it is not held/approved) governs the accusative and infinitive construction eum... teneri, where eum (referring to the seller) is the subject accusative. teneri (present passive infinitive of teneo) means 'to be bound' or 'to be liable' to the buyer (emptori, dative).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §18.4.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:18.4.3.pr

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