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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §19.1.22.pr

Seller's Misrepresentation of the Land's Quality

Passage 2788 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is shown that even if the seller did not lie about the total measure of the estate but about its quality (the proportion of vineyard and meadow), the seller is still liable to the buyer.

[IULIANUS libro septimo digestorum. ] §19.1.22.prSi in qualitate fundi uenditor mentitus sit, non in modo eius, tamen tenetur emptori: pone enim dixisse eum quinquaginta iugera esse uineae et quinquaginta prati et in prato plus inueniri, esse tamen omnia centum iugera.
[JULIANUS, Digest, Book VII.] If the seller has lied about the quality of the estate, and not about its measure, he is nevertheless liable to the buyer; for suppose he said that there were fifty iugera of vineyard and fifty of meadow, and more is found in the meadow, yet the whole is one hundred iugera.

Notes

  1. 19.1.22.prpone enim dixisse eum — The singular present imperative pone (suppose) of the verb ponere introduces a hypothetical scenario, governing an accusative with infinitive construction (eum dixisse...).
  2. 19.1.22.prvineae... prati — These are genitives modifying iugera (the unit of area), meaning "[fifty iugera] of vineyard... [fifty iugera] of meadow".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §19.1.22.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:19.1.22.pr

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