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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §21.2.76.pr

Loss of Eviction Action upon Buyer's Abandonment of Property

Passage 3157 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is explained that if a buyer who received delivery of another's property abandons it, the right to the action for eviction against the seller is lost.

[IDEM libro septimo decimo stipulationum. ] §21.2.76.prSi alienam rem mihi tradideris et eandem pro derelicto habuero, amitti auctoritatem, id est actionem pro euictione, placet.
[THE SAME, Book 17 of the Stipulations.] If you have delivered to me another's property and I have treated the same as abandoned, it is held that the guarantee, that is, the action for eviction, is lost.

Notes

  1. §21.2.76.prpro derelicto habuero — The phrase pro derelicto habere is a legal idiom meaning 'to treat as abandoned', i.e., to discard with the intention of relinquishing ownership. Note the shift in subject from tradideris (second person singular) in the preceding clause to habuero (first person singular).
  2. §21.2.76.prauctoritatem — Refers to the ancient guarantee liability (auctoritas) of a seller under civil law. Here it is explained appositively by the subsequent phrase id est actionem pro euictione (that is, the action for eviction), being treated as practically synonymous.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §21.2.76.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:21.2.76.pr

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