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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §19.1.34.pr

Action on Purchase for Discrepancies in Land Measurement

Passage 2800 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It stipulates that if a buyer suffers a disadvantage regarding the quality or measurement of the acreage when a tract of land is sold, an action on purchase (ex empto) will lie.

[IDEM libro decimo octauo ad edictum. ] §19.1.34.prSi fundo uendito in qualitate iugerum captio est, ex empto erit actio.
[THE SAME, On the Edict, Book XVIII.] If, when a tract of land is sold, there is a deception in the quality of the acreage, an action on purchase will lie.

Notes

  1. §19.1.34.prfundo uendito — Ablative absolute, indicating the condition or circumstance ('when a tract of land is sold' or 'in the case of a sold tract of land').
  2. §19.1.34.priugerum — Genitive plural of the unit of land measure iugerum (contracted from iugerorum).
  3. §19.1.34.prcaptio — A legal term meaning 'disadvantage', 'loss', or 'deception'. Here it refers to the material disadvantage or deception suffered by the buyer regarding the quality or measure of the acreage of the sold land.

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