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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §4.3.34.pr

Action for Fraud for Denying Removal of Dug Materials

Passage 695 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpianus explains that if someone who was permitted to extract stone or dig sand from another's land has incurred expenses, but the landowner refuses to let them take the materials away, only the action on fraud (actio de dolo) is available.

[IDEM libro quadragensimo secundo ad Sabinum. ] §4.3.34.prSi cum mihi permississes saxum ex fundo tuo eicere uel cretam uel harenam fodere, et sumptum in hanc rem fecerim, et non patiaris me tollere: nulla alia quam de dolo malo actio locum habebit.
[THE SAME, in the forty-second book on Sabinus.] If, when you had permitted me to extract stone from your land or to dig clay or sand, and I have incurred expense for this purpose, and you do not allow me to take them away; no action other than the action on fraud (actio de dolo) will lie.

Notes

  1. §4.3.34.prSi cum mihi permississes — Inside the conditional clause introduced by the conjunction si ("if"), a subordinate clause introduced by cum ("when/although") with the subjunctive pluperfect (cum mihi permississes...) is inserted. On the other hand, the verbs directly governed by si are the subsequent et sumptum... fecerim (perfect subjunctive) and et non patiaris (present subjunctive), which constitute the primary conditions of the conditional clause leading to the future indicative habebit in the main clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §4.3.34.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.3.34.pr

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