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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §19.2.7.pr

Lessor Liability for Owner Barring Subtenant

Passage 2828 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It establishes that if a tenant subleases another's apartment and the subtenant is barred by the owner, the tenant, being liable to the subtenant, can recover the same amount from the original lessor through an action on lease.

[PAULUS libro trigesimo secundo ad edictum. ] §19.2.7.prSi tibi alienam insulam locauero quinquaginta tuque eandem sexaginta Titio locaueris et Titius a domino prohibitus fuerit habitare, agentem te ex conducto sexaginta consequi debere placet, quia ipse Titio tenearis in sexaginta.
[PAULUS, on the Edict, book thirty-two] If I lease to you an apartment belonging to another for fifty, and you lease the same to Titius for sixty, and Titius is prevented from living there by the owner, it is held that you, suing on the lease, ought to recover sixty, because you yourself are liable to Titius for sixty.

Notes

  1. 19.2.7.pragentem te ex conducto — The present participle agentem modifies te, the subject of the accusative-with-infinitive clause. The phrase ex conducto refers to the action on the lease (actio ex conducto), which a lessee uses to sue a lessor.
  2. 19.2.7.prin sexaginta — The preposition in here indicates the limit or amount of liability (sixty). Since 'you' are liable to Titius for sixty under the sublease, you are allowed to recover the same amount in the action based on the original lease.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §19.2.7.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:19.2.7.pr

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