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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §21.2.45.pr

Eviction within Erroneously Indicated Land Boundaries

Passage 3126 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

If a seller points out boundaries more extensive than the agreed one hundred iugera, and part of this land is evicted, the seller must compensate the buyer according to the quality of the evicted part, even if the remaining land still amounts to one hundred iugera.

[IDEM libro quarto digestorum a Paulo epitomatorum. ] §21.2.45.prQui fundum tradiderat iugerum centum, fines multo amplius emptori demonstrauerat.
[THE SAME, Digest, Book IV, epitomized by Paulus.] A person who had delivered a tract of land of one hundred iugera had pointed out to the buyer boundaries that were much more extensive.
si quid ex his finibus euinceretur, pro bonitate eius emptori praestandum ait, quamuis id quod relinqueretur centum iugera haberet.
He says that if any part within these boundaries should be evicted, compensation must be made to the buyer according to the quality of that part, even though the land which remained should still comprise one hundred iugera.

Notes

  1. §21.2.45.prQui fundum tradiderat iugerum centum, fines multo amplius emptori demonstrauerat. — The antecedent of the relative pronoun qui (such as is) is omitted and serves as the subject of the main verb demonstrauerat. The genitive iugerum centum is a genitive of measure/quality modifying fundum. The phrase multo amplius functions adverbially or modifies the accusative plural noun fines to mean "much more extensive" than the agreed measure.
  2. §21.2.45.prsi quid ex his finibus euinceretur — The verb euinceretur is the imperfect subjunctive passive, referring to legal eviction (the recovery of property by a third party under a superior title). The pronoun quid is equivalent to aliquid following si.
  3. §21.2.45.prpro bonitate eius emptori praestandum ait — The main verb ait introduces an indirect statement where the infinitive esse is omitted from the gerundive construction praestandum [esse]. The gerundive praestandum functions impersonally to denote obligation ("compensation must be made"). The genitive pronoun eius refers back to quid, the subject of the eviction clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §21.2.45.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:21.2.45.pr

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