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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §19.2.14.pr

Inability to Renew a Lease due to Insanity or Death

Passage 2835 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that a lease is renewed by bare consent if the owner permits the tenant to remain after the term expires, but such renewal is impossible if the owner becomes insane or dies in the meantime due to the lack of capacity to consent.

[IDEM libro septuagesimo primo ad edictum. ] §19.2.14.prQui ad certum tempus conducit, finito quoque tempore colonus est: intellegitur enim dominus, cum patitur colonum in fundo esse, ex integro locare, et huiusmodi contractus neque uerba neque scripturam utique desiderant, sed nudo consensu conualescunt: et ideo si interim dominus furere coeperit uel decesserit, fieri non posse Marcellus ait, ut locatio redintegretur, et est hoc uerum.
[THE SAME, On the Edict, book 71] He who leases for a certain time is a tenant even after the time has expired; for the owner, when he allows the tenant to remain on the land, is understood to lease it anew, and contracts of this kind do not strictly require either words or writing, but become valid by bare consent. Therefore, if in the meantime the owner should begin to be insane or should die, Marcellus says that it is impossible for the lease to be renewed, and this is correct.

Notes

  1. 19.2.14.prfinito quoque tempore — The ablative absolute "finito tempore" with the conjunction "quoque" emphasizes that the tenant's status as a "colonus" continues "even when the lease period has expired."
  2. 19.2.14.prfieri non posse ... ut locatio redintegretur — The conjunction "ut" introduces a substantive clause serving as the subject of the impersonal phrase "fieri non posse." It outlines the legal consequence that a tacit renewal ("redintegratio") cannot occur because the owner's insanity or death deprives them of the capacity to consent.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §19.2.14.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:19.2.14.pr

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