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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §21.2.9.pr

Eviction and Purchase Actions When Buyer Inherits Owner

Passage 3090 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This fragment presents Sabinus's view that if a buyer of another's slave subsequently inherits from the true owner, the action for eviction is lost because the slave cannot be evicted, but the buyer must resort to the action ex empto.

[PAULUS libro septuagesimo sexto ad edictum. ] §21.2.9.prSi uendideris seruum mihi Titii, deinde Titius heredem me reliquerit, Sabinus ait amissarn actionem pro euictione, quoniam seruus non potest euinci: sed in ex empto actione decurrendum est.
[PAULUS, On the Edict, book seventy-six.] If you have sold to me a slave belonging to Titius, and then Titius has left me as his heir, Sabinus says that the action on eviction is lost, since the slave cannot be evicted; but resort must be had to the action ex empto.

Notes

  1. §21.2.9.pramissarn — The word 'amissarn' in the manuscripts is a corrupt spelling for 'amissam' (perfect passive participle accusative feminine singular of amittere). It modifies 'actionem pro euictione' in the accusative-with-infinitive construction (with 'esse' omitted) dependent on 'ait'.
  2. §21.2.9.prdecurrendum est — An impersonal use of the gerundive (future passive participle) with 'est' to express obligation or necessity. Combined with the preposition 'in' and the ablative 'ex empto actione', it translates as "resort must be had to the action ex empto" or "one must recourse to the action ex empto."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §21.2.9.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:21.2.9.pr

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