[GAIUS libro decimo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §18.6.9.prSi post inspectum praedium, antequam emptio contraheretur, arbores uento deiectae sunt, an hae quoque emptori tradi debeant, quaeritur: et responsum est non deberi, quia eas non emerit, cum ante, quam fundum emerit, desierint fundi esse.
[GAIUS, in Book 10 on the Provincial Edict.] If, after a tract of land has been inspected but before the sale was contracted, trees are blown down by the wind, it is asked whether these also ought to be delivered to the buyer. And the answer was that they ought not to be, because he did not buy them, since they had ceased to belong to the land before he bought the land.
sed si ignorauit emptor deiectas esse arbores, uenditor autem scit nec admonuit, quanti emptoris interfuerit rem aestimandam esse, si modo uenit.
But if the buyer was ignorant that the trees had been blown down, whereas the seller knew and did not warn him, the property must be valued at the amount of the buyer's interest, provided only that the sale has been contracted.