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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.5.40.pr

Seller's Duty for Inheritance Acquired Before Slave Delivery

Passage 4219 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Marcellus notes and agrees with Julian's view regarding what the seller must render if the slave had been delivered before entering upon the inheritance.

[MARCELLUS libro trigesimo digestorum IULIANI notat. ] §28.5.40.primmo et id debet praestari, quod consequi uenditor non potuisset, si prius, quam adiret seruus partem hereditatis, is traditus esset: quod est uerum.
[MARCELLUS, in his notes on the thirtieth book of JULIAN'S Digest.] Nay indeed, even that must be rendered which the seller could not have obtained if the slave had been delivered before he entered upon his share of the inheritance; and this is true.

Notes

  1. §28.5.40.prprius, quam — The subordinating conjunction `priusquam` (before) is split into two words (`prius, quam`) by tmesis, introducing the subjunctive verb `adiret` (imperfect subjunctive).
  2. §28.5.40.prconsequi uenditor non potuisset, si ... is traditus esset — A conditional sentence expressing a past contrary-to-fact situation (irrealis), with the pluperfect subjunctive used in both the protasis (`traditus esset`) and the apodosis (`potuisset`). `consequi` is the infinitive of the deponent verb `consequor`, serving as a complementary infinitive to `potuisset`.
  3. §28.5.40.prquod est uerum — A relative connection with the relative pronoun `quod` referring to the entire preceding statement (Julian's opinion), to which Marcellus adds his agreement: "and this is true."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.5.40.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.5.40.pr

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