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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §3.3.63.pr

Limits and Exceptions to a Procurator's Alienation

Passage 546 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Modestinus explains that a general administrator of property cannot alienate the master's assets (whether movable, immovable, or slaves) without a special mandate, with the exception of fruits and other perishable items.

[MODESTINUS libro sexto differentiarum. ] §3.3.63.prProcurator totorum bonorum, cui res administrandae mandatae sunt, res domini neque mobiles uel immobiles neque seruos sine speciali domini mandatu alienare potest, nisi fructus aut alias res, quae facile corrumpi possunt.
[MODESTINUS in the sixth book of Differences.] A procurator of all property, to whom the administration of assets has been mandated, cannot alienate the property of the master, whether movable or immovable, or slaves, without a special mandate of the master, except for fruits or other things that can easily spoil.

Notes

  1. §3.3.63.prneque mobiles uel immobiles neque seruos — Appositive phrases qualifying res domini (accusative). Although in Roman law, slaves (seruos) are categorized as "things" (res), syntactically they are juxtaposed here with general assets (res, further divided into mobiles uel immobiles) using the neque... neque... structure, treating them distinctively in linguistic terms.
  2. §3.3.63.prnisi fructus aut alias res — The conjunction nisi introduces an exception to the negative sense of the main clause (alienare... non potest), meaning "except that he may alienate fruits or other things..."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §3.3.63.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.3.63.pr

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