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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.2.33.pr

Tenant Denial of Threatened Damage Action and Lease Remedies

Passage 6157 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that a tenant is not granted an action for threatened damage, as they can bring an action on the lease if the owner prevents them from moving out.

[ULPIANUS libro quadragensimo secundo ad Sabinum. ] §39.2.33.prInquilino non datur damni infecti actio, quia possit ex conducto agere, si dominus eum migrare prohiberet:
[ULPIANUS in the forty-second book on Sabinus.] An action for threatened damage is not given to a tenant, because he can bring an action on the lease if the owner should prevent him from moving out.

Notes

  1. §39.2.33.prex conducto agere — ex conducto ("from hiring") refers to the contractual action (actio ex conducto) available to the hirer or tenant (conductor / inquilinus) in a contract of letting and hiring (locatio conductio). If the landlord (dominus) prevents the tenant from moving out when there is a danger of damage, the tenant must seek remedy through this contractual action rather than the special action for threatened damage (damni infecti actio).
  2. §39.2.33.prprohiberet — The combination of subjunctives in quia possit... si... prohiberet indicates a hypothetical scenario. While the main verb is in the present tense (non datur), the conditional clause uses the imperfect subjunctive (prohiberet) to express a potential or hypothetical situation that might arise in the future rather than an actual occurring event.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.2.33.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.2.33.pr

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