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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §19.2.10.pr

Action by a Lessee Who Acquires Ownership to Release Obligations

Passage 2831 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states that a lessee who has acquired a leased house belonging to another can rightly bring an action on lease to be released from obligations.

[IULIANUS libro ad Ferocem. ] §19.2.10.pret ego ex conducto recte agam uel in hoc, ut me liberes.
[JULIAN, On Ferox] And I too will rightly bring an action on lease at least for this purpose, that you release me.

Notes

  1. 19.2.10.pruel in hoc, ut me liberes — uel is used here not as a disjunctive ("or") but as an intensive adverb meaning "at least" or "even." in hoc refers forward to the following ut clause ("that you release me"), meaning "at least for this purpose, namely, that you release me."
  2. 19.2.10.pragam — First-person singular future active indicative of the verb agere (to bring an action). In this context, it expresses the intention or certainty of taking legal action in the future, rather than being a present subjunctive.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §19.2.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:19.2.10.pr

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