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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §21.1.48.pr-21.1.48.8

Requirements, Defenses, and Scope of Aedilician Actions

Passage 3064 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Analyzes various requirements and rules of the aedilician actions, including the effect of a slave's death without the plaintiff's fault, the buyer's right to retain a defective slave, limitation periods, defenses based on the buyer's knowledge, active and passive transmission to heirs, application to animals and usufruct, reservation of subsequent claims, and the exclusion of simple sales.

[POMPONIUS libro uicesimo tertio ad Sabinum. ] §21.1.48.prsi tamen sine culpa actoris familiaeue eius uel procuratoris mortuus sit.
[POMPONIUS in the twenty-third book on Sabinus.] provided, however, that he died without the fault of the plaintiff, his household, or his procurator.
§21.1.48.1Audiendus est is, qui de uitio uel morbo serui querens retinere eum uelit.
Anyone who complains about a defect or disease of a slave and wishes to retain him must be heard.
§21.1.48.2Non nocebit emptori, si sex mensum exceptione redhibitoria exclusus uelit intra annum aestimatoria agere.
It will not prejudice the buyer if, having been excluded from the redhibitory action by the six-month exception, he wishes to bring the estimatory action within a year.
§21.1.48.3Ei, qui seruum uinctum uendiderit, aedilicium edictum remitti aequum est: multo enim amplius est id facere, quam pronuntiare in uinculis fuisse.
It is equitable that the aedilician edict be remitted for one who has sold a bound slave; for doing this is much more significant than declaring that he had been in chains.
§21.1.48.4In aediliciis actionibus exceptionem opponi aequum est, si emptor sciret de fuga aut uinculis aut ceteris rebus similibus, ut uenditor absoluatur.
In the aedilician actions, it is equitable that an exception be opposed if the buyer knew of the flight, chains, or other similar matters, so that the seller may be acquitted.
§21.1.48.5Aediliciae actiones et heredi et in heredem competunt, ut tamen et facta heredum quae postea accesserint et quod experiri potuerint, quaerantur.
The aedilician actions are available both for and against an heir, provided, however, that the subsequent acts of the heirs and what they were able to attempt are investigated.
§21.1.48.6Non solum de mancipiis, sed de omni animali hae actiones competunt, ita ut etiam, si usum fructum in homine emerim, competere debeant.
These actions apply not only to slaves, but to every animal, so that they ought to apply even if I have purchased a usufruct in a slave.
§21.1.48.7Cum redhibitoria actione de sanitate agitur, permittendum est de uno uitio agere et praedicere, ut, si quid aliud postea apparuisset, de eo iterum ageretur.
When a redhibitory action is brought concerning health, it should be permitted to sue on one defect and make a declaration so that, if any other defect should appear later, a suit may be brought on it again.
§21.1.48.8Simplariarum uenditionum causa ne sit redhibitio, in usu est.
It is standard practice that redhibition does not apply in the case of simple sales.

Notes

  1. §21.1.48.prsi tamen — This subordinate clause acts as a conditional clause ("provided, however, that...") modifying the statement in the preceding fragment (§21.1.47.1) that "aedilician actions remain after the death of the slave," with the main clause omitted.
  2. §21.1.48.3Ei, qui seruum uinctum uendiderit, aedilicium edictum remitti aequum est — aequum est is an impersonal expression taking the accusative-with-infinitive clause aedilicium edictum remitti (that the aedilician edict be remitted) as its subject. The dative Ei, qui... uendiderit depends on remitti.
  3. §21.1.48.5ut tamen — A conjunction introducing a restrictive or qualifying condition ("provided however that...") on the application of the preceding main clause.
  4. §21.1.48.8ne sit redhibitio — A noun clause functioning as the subject of or in apposition to in usu est (it is standard practice), using the subjunctive sit to express the content of the practice (that redhibition should not take place).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §21.1.48.pr-21.1.48.8. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:21.1.48.pr-21.1.48.8

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