[PAULUS libro secundo quaestionum. ] §19.1.42.prSi duorum fundorum uenditor separatim de modo cuiusque pronuntiauerit et ita utrumque uno pretio tradiderit, et alteri aliquid desit, quamuis in altero exsuperet, forte si dixit unum centum iugera, alterum ducenta habere, non proderit ei, quod in altero ducenta decem inueniuntur, si in altero decem desint.
[PAULUS in the second book of Questions] If a seller of two estates has declared the measure of each separately and has thus delivered both for a single price, and something is missing in one, even though there is an excess in the other—for instance, if he said that one had a hundred iugera and the other two hundred—it will not benefit him that two hundred and ten are found in the other, if ten are missing in the one.
et de his ita apud Labeonem relatum est.
And concerning these matters, it is so reported in the works of Labeo.
sed an exceptio doli mali uenditori profutura sit, potest dubitari, utique si exiguus modus siluae desit et plus in uineis habeat, quam repromissum est.
But whether the defense of fraud will benefit the seller may be doubted, especially if a small measure of woodland is missing and he has more in the vineyards than was promised.
an non facit dolo, qui iure perpetuo utitur? nec enim hic quod amplius in modo inuenitur, quam alioquin dictum est, ad compendium uenditoris, sed ad emptoris pertinet: et tunc tenetur uenditor, cum minor modus inuenitur.
Or does he not act without fraud who exercises an established right? For here, what is found to be more in measure than what was otherwise stated does not belong to the gain of the seller, but of the buyer; and the seller is held liable only when a smaller measure is found.
uideamus tamen, ne nulla querella sit emptoris in eodem fundo, si plus inueniat in uinea quam in prato, cum uniuersus modus constat.
Let us see, however, whether there is no complaint of the buyer in the same estate, if he finds more in the vineyard than in the meadow, when the total measure is consistent.
similis quaestio esse potest ei, quae in duobus fundis agitata est et si quis duos statuliberos uno pretio uendat et dicat unum decem dare iussum, qui quindecim dare debebat: nam et hic tenebitur ex empto actione, quamuis emptor a duobus uiginti accepturus sit.
A similar question to the one discussed regarding the two estates can also arise if someone sells two conditional freemen for a single price and says that one was ordered to give ten, who in fact owed fifteen; for here too, he will be held liable under the action on purchase, although the buyer is going to receive twenty from the two.
sed rectius est in omnibus supra scriptis casibus lucrum cum damno compensari et si quid deest emptori siue pro modo siue pro qualitate loci, hoc ei resarciri.
But it is more correct in all the above-mentioned cases that gain is compensated with loss, and if anything is missing to the buyer, whether in measure or in the quality of the place, this should be made good to him.