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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §21.2.36.pr

Eviction of Compound Materials and Seller Liability

Passage 3117 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

When a ship or a house is bought, its individual materials (stones or planks) are not considered to be bought individually, so the seller does not bear liability for eviction if a part is lost.

[IDEM libro uicesimo nono ad edictum. ] §21.2.36.prNaue aut domu empta singula caementa uel tabulae emptae non intelleguntur ideoque nec euictionis nomine obligatur uenditor quasi euicta parte.
[The same, On the Edict, Book Twenty-Nine] When a ship or a house is purchased, the individual stones or planks are not understood to have been purchased, and therefore the seller is not bound on account of eviction as if a part of it had been evicted.

Notes

  1. §21.2.36.prNaue aut domu empta — Ablative absolute expressing time or condition. The perfect participle `empta` (feminine singular ablative) agrees with both feminine nouns `naue` and `domu`.
  2. §21.2.36.prsingula caementa uel tabulae emptae non intelleguntur — A passive construction with a nominative predicate. The participle `emptae` (nominative feminine plural) agrees with the nearer feminine plural subject `tabulae` rather than the neuter plural `caementa`. `intelleguntur` functions here as "are understood/deemed to be."
  3. §21.2.36.prquasi euicta parte — An ablative absolute construction (`euicta parte`) introduced by `quasi` (as if). The term `parte` (part) refers to the individual component parts of the purchased ship or house.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §21.2.36.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:21.2.36.pr

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