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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §21.2.50.pr

Eviction Liability and Action for Fraud in Execution Sales

Passage 3131 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that public attendants executing judgments by selling pledges are not generally liable for eviction, but the owner is granted an action on the ground of malice if they maliciously sell the property at an undervalue.

[ULPIANUS libro uicesimo quinto ad edictum. ] §21.2.50.prSi pignora ueneant per apparitores praetoris extra ordinem sententias sequentes, nemo umquam dixit dandam in eos actionem re euicta: sed si dolo rem uiliori pretio proiecerunt, tunc de dolo actio datur aduersus eos domino rei.
[ULPIANUS, Book XXV on the Edict.] If pledges are sold by the attendants of the praetor in execution of judgments outside the ordinary course, no one has ever said that an action should be granted against them if the property is evicted; but if through malice they have thrown away the property at a lower price, then an action on the ground of malice is granted against them to the owner of the property.

Notes

  1. §21.2.50.prsententias sequentes — The present participle `sequentes` (nominative plural masculine of `sequor`) agrees with `apparitores`, meaning "following" or "executing" the judgments (`sententias`).
  2. §21.2.50.prre euicta — Ablative absolute, expressing a concessive or conditional circumstance: "even if the property is evicted" or "in the event that the property is evicted."
  3. §21.2.50.prdandam in eos actionem — Part of the accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction introduced by `nemo umquam dixit`. The copula `esse` is omitted after the gerundive `dandam`, and `actionem` serves as the subject accusative. The prepositional phrase `in eos` indicates the direction of the action against the attendants (`apparitores`).

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