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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §21.2.17.pr

Claims by the Seller and Buyer's Choice of Remedies

Passage 3098 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that when a seller claims back property they sold, the buyer can choose either to bar the claim with a plea of fraud to keep the property, or to let it be taken and claim double value under the stipulation.

[ULPIANUS libro uicesimo nono ad Sabinum. ] §21.2.17.prUindicantem uenditorem rem, quam ipse uendidit, exceptione doli posse summoueri nemini dubium est, quamuis alio iure dominium quaesierit: improbe enim rem a se distractam euincere conatur.
[ULPIANUS, Commentary on Sabinus, Book Twenty-Nine.] There is no doubt to anyone that a seller who claims a property which he himself has sold can be barred by the plea of fraud, even though he has acquired the ownership by some other title; for he dishonestly attempts to evict property which has been sold by himself.
eligere autem emptor potest, utrum rem uelit retinere intentione per exceptionem elisa, an potius re ablata ex causa stipulationis duplum consequi.
Moreover, the buyer can choose whether he wishes to retain the property, the seller's claim being defeated by the plea, or rather, the property being taken away, to obtain double value under the stipulation.

Notes

  1. 21.2.17.prUindicantem uenditorem — The subject accusative (uenditorem) and its modifying present participle (uindicantem) inside the accusative-with-infinitive construction introduced by nemini dubium est. The whole phrase means 'that a seller who claims... can be barred...'.
  2. 21.2.17.printentione per exceptionem elisa — An ablative absolute construction meaning 'the seller's claim (intentio) being defeated by the buyer's plea (exceptionem)'. This describes the condition under which the buyer chooses to retain the property.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §21.2.17.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:21.2.17.pr

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