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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §21.1.36.pr

Valuation of Slaves and Fixed Prices in Collective Sales

Passage 3052 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius explains how the valuation of individual slaves or adherence to their set prices should be handled in the aedilician action when several slaves are sold either for a single lump-sum price or for the sum of individual prices.

[POMPONIUS libro uicesimo tertio ad Sabinum. ] §21.1.36.prSi plura mancipia uno pretio uenerint et de uno eorum aedilicia actione utamur, ita demum pro bonitate eius aestimatio fiet, si confuse uniuersis mancipiis constitutum pretium fuerit: quod si singulorum mancipiorum constituto pretio uniuersa tanti uenierunt, quantum ex consummatione singulorum fiebat, tunc cuiusque mancipii pretium, seu pluris seu minoris id esset, sequi debemus.
[POMPONIUS in the twenty-third book on Sabinus.] If several slaves have been sold for a single price, and we bring the aedilician action concerning one of them, an estimation according to his quality shall only be made if the price was set for all the slaves collectively; but if, after the price of each slave had been established, they were all sold for as much as the sum of the individual prices amounted to, then we must follow the price of each slave, whether it was higher or lower.

Notes

  1. §21.1.36.pruenerint — Perfect subjunctive or future perfect of the verb ueneo (to be sold, ueniis, ueniit, uenire). It is easily confused with uenio (to come), but in legal texts it is frequently used in the context of sale (uenditio) to mean 'to be sold'.
  2. §21.1.36.prita demum pro bonitate eius aestimatio fiet, si — The correlative construction ita demum... si... (only if..., then...) is used, indicating that the conditional clause (introduced by si) is the sole requirement for the main clause to take effect.
  3. §21.1.36.prpluris seu minoris — Genitive of value or price. Accompanied by the imperfect subjunctive (esset), it expresses a concessive hypothesis ('whether it were of more or of less value') in relation to the main clause verb.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §21.1.36.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:21.1.36.pr

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