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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §19.1.19.pr

Indiscriminate Use of Terms in Sale by Ancient Jurists

Passage 2785 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Gaius' observation that the ancient jurists used terminology in purchase and sale contract indiscriminately.

[GAIUS ad edictum praetoris titulo de publicanis. ] §19.1.19.prUeteres in emptione uenditioneque appellationibus promiscue utebantur.
[GAIUS on the Edict of the Praetor, under the title "On Publicans".] The ancients, in purchase and sale, used the terms indiscriminately.

Notes

  1. §19.1.19.prUeteres — Meaning "the ancients"; in the context of Roman jurisprudence, it refers to the older jurists of the pre-classical (especially Republican) period.
  2. §19.1.19.prappellationibus — Ablative plural acting as the object of the verb `utebantur` (imperfect third-person plural of `utor`, "to use"), which governs the ablative case. It refers to legal terms such as buyer/seller or buying/selling.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §19.1.19.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:19.1.19.pr

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