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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.2.46.pr-39.2.46.1

Duty to Rebuild Ruined Houses and Municipal Sale

Passage 6170 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus states that it is the duty of the municipal curator to ensure the rebuilding of ruined houses, and that the municipality has the right to sell a house rebuilt at public expense if the owner fails to refund the costs with interest.

[PAULUS libro primo sententiarum. ] §39.2.46.prAd curatoris rei publicae officium spectat, ut dirutae domus a dominis extruantur.
[PAULUS in the first book of Opinions.] It belongs to the duty of the curator of the municipality to see that ruined houses are rebuilt by their owners.
§39.2.46.1Domum sumptu publico exstructam, si dominus ad tempus pecuniam impensam cum usuris restituere noluerit, iure eam res publica distrahit.
If the owner refuses to repay the money expended, with interest, within the time limit, the municipality lawfully sells the house which has been rebuilt at public expense.

Notes

  1. §39.2.46.prcuratoris rei publicae — In this context, 'res publica' refers to a local municipality or city-state, and 'curator rei publicae' designates an imperial official appointed to oversee its finances and public works.
  2. §39.2.46.1Domum sumptu publico exstructam — The accusative phrase 'Domum ... exstructam' placed at the beginning of the sentence is grammatically resumed after the conditional clause 'si dominus ... noluerit' by the pronoun 'eam', which functions as the direct object of the main verb 'distrahit'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.2.46.pr-39.2.46.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.2.46.pr-39.2.46.1

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