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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §21.1.63.pr

Scope of the Edict: Limited to Sales and Exclusion of Leases

Passage 3079 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that the aediles' edict applies only to sales (of both slaves and other things) and discusses why it does not cover leases, citing either the lack of jurisdiction of the aediles or the different nature of the transactions.

[ULPIANUS libro primo ad edictum aedilium curulium. ] §21.1.63.prSciendum est ad uenditiones solas hoc edictum pertinere non tantum mancipiorum, uerum ceterarum quoque rerum.
[ULPIANUS in the first book on the Edict of the Curule Aediles.] It must be known that this edict pertains to sales alone, not only of slaves, but of other things as well.
cur autem de locationibus nihil edicatur, mirum uidebatur: haec tamen ratio redditur uel quia numquam istorum de hac re fuerat iurisdictio uel quia non similiter locationes ut uenditiones fiunt.
However, why nothing is declared concerning leases seemed strange; yet this reason is given, either because their jurisdiction had never existed concerning this matter, or because leases are not made in the same way as sales.

Notes

  1. 63prmancipiorum — The genitives mancipiorum (of slaves) and ceterarum rerum (of other things) modify the preceding noun uenditiones (sales), functioning as possessive or objective genitives ("sales of slaves", "sales of other things").
  2. 63prmirum uidebatur — An impersonal expression taking the indirect question clause cur de locationibus nihil edicatur (why nothing is declared concerning leases) as its subject.
  3. 63pristorum — The genitive plural of the demonstrative pronoun iste, referring in this context to the "curule aediles" (aediles curules) who are the authors of the edict.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §21.1.63.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:21.1.63.pr

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