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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §19.2.18.pr

Ward Profit from Leasing Land and Action of Guardianship

Passage 2839 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that the action of guardianship also includes the profit that the ward could have made from leasing land.

[Iulianus libro quinto decimo digestorum. ] §19.2.18.prin quo inerit etiam hoc, quod ex conductione fundi lucrum facere potuit.
[JULIANUS, Digest, book 15]\n\nin which there will also be included this, namely, that he could have made a profit from the lease of the land.

Notes

  1. §19.2.18.prin quo — The antecedent of the relative pronoun quo (neuter ablative singular) is tutelae iudicio (the action of guardianship) in the preceding fragment (19.2.17.pr).
  2. §19.2.18.prquod ... potuit — A noun clause in apposition to hoc (fact-introducing quod clause), explaining its content. The indicative perfect potuit expresses a past possibility ("he could have made"), referring to lost profits that were not actually realized.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §19.2.18.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:19.2.18.pr

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