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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §33.7.23.pr

Shop Equipment and the Nature of Business Carried On

Passage 5083 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that when determining what constitutes the equipment of a shop, it is important to consider what kind of business was customarily carried on in it.

[NERATIUS libro secundo responsorum. ] §33.7.23.prCum quaeratur, quod sit tabernae instrumentum, interesse, quod genus negotiationis in ea exerceri solitum sit.
When the question is asked as to what constitutes the equipment of a shop, it makes a difference what kind of business was customarily carried on in it.

Notes

  1. §33.7.23.printeresse — Infinitive of the impersonal verb interest. In the context of a jurist's response, it functions within an accusative-with-infinitive (A.C.I.) construction where the main verb (such as respondit) is omitted. The logical subject of this infinitive is the subsequent indirect question clause quod genus....
  2. §33.7.23.prquod genus negotiationis — The interrogative adjective quod modifies genus, forming an indirect question clause that acts as the subject of the impersonal verb interesse.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §33.7.23.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:33.7.23.pr

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