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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §21.1.22.pr

Guarantee against Interference in Retaining Returned Slaves

Passage 3037 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It stipulates that a guarantee must be given that neither the buyer nor his heir will prevent the seller from keeping the returned slave.

[GAIUS libro primo ad edictum aedilium curulium. ] §21.1.22.pret neque per se neque per heredem suum futurum, quo minus eum hominem uenditor habeat.
[GAIUS libro primo ad edictum aedilium curulium.] and [that it will] not [happen] through himself or his heir that the seller is prevented from having that slave.

Notes

  1. §21.1.22.prfuturum, quo minus — The infinitive futurum [esse] (that it will happen) is followed by a quo minus clause, which typically introduces a clause of prevention. In this context, it functions as an accusative-with-infinitive clause depending on the implied verb of guaranteeing (such as cauere oportere) from the preceding section, meaning 'that it will not happen through himself or his heir that the seller is prevented from keeping that slave.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §21.1.22.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:21.1.22.pr

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