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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §21.1.55.pr

Buyer Ignorance and Time Limit for Redhibition

Passage 3071 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Papinianus discusses the calculation of the six available months for the redhibitory action, stating that a buyer ignorant of a slave's latent tendency to run away is not deemed to have had the opportunity to sue, though the buyer's gross ignorance is not excused.

[IDEM libro duodecimo responsorum. ] §21.1.55.prCum sex menses utiles, quibus experiundi potestas fuit, redhibitoriae actioni praestantur, non uidebitur potestatem experiundi habuisse, qui uitium fugit?ui latens ignorauit: non idcirco tamen dissolutam ignorationem emptoris excusari oportebit.
[THE SAME in the twelfth book of his Responses.]\n\nSince six available months, during which there was an opportunity of bringing an action, are allowed for the redhibitory action, a person who was ignorant of the latent defect of a runaway slave will not be deemed to have had the opportunity of bringing an action; nevertheless, the gross ignorance of the buyer should not be excused on that account.

Notes

  1. §21.1.55.prfugit?ui — The manuscript reading fugit?ui is interpreted as a corruption of fugitivi (genitive singular of fugitivus, "of a runaway slave"). Thus, uitium fugitivi latens means "the latent defect of a runaway slave."
  2. §21.1.55.prexperiundi — Genitive singular of the gerund of the deponent verb experior (to bring an action). In Roman legal terminology, it is used in the technical sense of "to exercise a right of action" or "to sue."
  3. §21.1.55.prnon uidebitur potestatem experiundi habuisse, qui — A personal construction of uideor (Nominative with Infinitive). The entire relative clause qui ... ignorauit functions as the subject of uidebitur, meaning "he who ... will not be deemed to have had..."
  4. §21.1.55.prdissolutam ignorationem emptoris excusari oportebit — An Accusative with Infinitive (ACI) construction functioning as the subject of the impersonal verb oportebit. dissoluta ignoratio is a legal term denoting "gross/reckless ignorance."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §21.1.55.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:21.1.55.pr

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