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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §2.14.56.pr

Owner's Agreement Not to Sue and Tenant's Right to Claim

Passage 422 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Rules that even if an agreement for the owner not to make any claim against the tenant is supported by a just cause, the tenant is still permitted to make claims against the owner.

[IDEM libro sexto ad Minicium. ] §2.14.56.prSi conuenerit, ne dominus a colono quid peteret, et iusta causa conuentionis fuerit: nihilo minus colonus a domino petere potest.
[THE SAME in the sixth book On Minicius.] If it has been agreed that the owner should not make any claim against the tenant, and there was a just cause for the agreement: nevertheless, the tenant can make a claim against the owner.

Notes

  1. §2.14.56.prconuenerit — The future perfect indicative (or perfect subjunctive) of the impersonal verb conuenit, with the following ne-clause ('that the owner should not make any claim') functioning as its subject. The word quid is an indefinite pronoun equivalent to aliquid after the negative particle ne.
  2. §2.14.56.prnihilo minus — An adverbial phrase meaning 'none the less' or 'nevertheless'. It corresponds to the conditional clauses, emphasizing that the conclusion of the main clause remains unaffected by those conditions.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §2.14.56.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.14.56.pr

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