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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §19.1.32.pr

Remedies for Fraudulent Weights in a Contract of Sale

Passage 2798 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian cites Pomponius' view that if either the buyer or the seller uses unfair weights to deceive the other party in the quantity of olive oil sold, the aggrieved party can bring an action on the contract of sale to seek proper redress.

[ULPIANUS libro undecimo ad edictum. ] §19.1.32.prSi quis a me oleum quod emisset adhibitis iniquis ponderibus accepisset, ut in modo me falleret, uel emptor circumscriptus sit a uenditore ponderibus minoribus, Pomponius ait posse dici uenditorem sibi dare oportere quod plus est petere: quod habet rationem: ergo et emptor ex empto habebit actionem, qua contentus esse possit.
[ULPIAN, On the Edict, Book XI.] If anyone has accepted from me the olive oil which he had bought, using unfair weights in order to deceive me in the quantity, or if a buyer has been defrauded by the seller with lighter weights, Pomponius says it can be held that the seller can claim that what is in excess ought to be given to him; and this is reasonable. Therefore, the buyer also will have an action on the purchase, with which he can be satisfied.

Notes

  1. §19.1.32.prposse dici uenditorem sibi dare oportere quod plus est petere — This is a complex structure with multiple nested infinitives. First, the impersonally used `posse dici` ("it can be said") governs an accusative with infinitive clause where `uenditorem` is the subject accusative of the infinitive `petere` ("that the seller can claim"). Second, the infinitive `petere` itself governs another object clause in the accusative with infinitive, `sibi dare oportere quod plus est` ("that what is in excess ought to be given to him").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §19.1.32.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:19.1.32.pr

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