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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §20.2.4.pr-20.2.4.1

Tacit Pledge on Goods in Urban Estates and Stables

Passage 2952 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text discusses the tacit pledge on goods brought into urban estates and examines the legal classification of stables detached from the main buildings.

[NERATIUS libro primo membranarum. ] §20.2.4.prEo iure utimur, ut quae in praedia urbana inducta illata sunt pignori esse credantur, quasi id tacite conuenerit: in rusticis praediis contra obseruatur.
[NERATIUS, in his first book of Parchments.] We observe the rule of law that things brought and carried into urban estates are believed to be pledged, as if this had been tacitly agreed upon; in the case of rustic estates, the contrary is observed.
§20.2.4.1Stabula quae non sunt in continentibus aedificiis quorum praediorum ea numero habenda sint, dubitari potest.
As to stables which are not within contiguous buildings, it can be doubted in the number of which estates they should be considered.
et quidem urbanorum sine dubio non sunt, cum a ceteris aedificiis separata sint: quod ad causam tamen talis taciti pignoris pertinet, non multum ab urbanis praediis differunt.
And indeed they certainly do not belong to urban estates, since they are separated from the rest of the buildings; however, so far as concerns the cause of such tacit pledge, they do not differ much from urban estates.

Notes

  1. §20.2.4.preo iure utimur, ut — The ut-clause functions as an appositional noun clause explaining the specific content of eo iure ("we observe the rule of law that...").
  2. §20.2.4.1quorum praediorum — The interrogative adjective quorum modifies praediorum, introducing an indirect question, and means "of which (class of) estates (urban or rustic)".
  3. §20.2.4.1quod ad causam tamen talis taciti pignoris pertinet — The relative pronoun quod is used adverbially in the idiomatic restrictive phrase quod ad... pertinet, meaning "as far as ... is concerned" or "with regard to ...".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §20.2.4.pr-20.2.4.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:20.2.4.pr-20.2.4.1

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