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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §41.1.59.pr

Transfer of Ownership of Goods Bought under Mandate by Delivery

Passage 6689 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It stipulates that a thing bought under a mandate does not become the property of the mandator until the purchaser has delivered it to them.

[CALLISTRATUS libro secundo quaestionum. ] §41.1.59.prRes ex mandatu meo empta non prius mea fiet, quam si mihi tradiderit qui emit.
[CALLISTRATUS, from the second book of Questions.] A thing bought by my mandate will not become mine until the purchaser has delivered it to me.

Notes

  1. §41.1.59.prnon prius... quam si — The correlation non prius ... quam si means "not earlier ... than if", functioning to express a necessary condition ("not until" or "only if").
  2. §41.1.59.prqui emit — The antecedent (such as is) of the relative pronoun qui is omitted, so that the clause qui emit functions substantively as "the one who bought" and serves as the subject of tradiderit.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §41.1.59.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:41.1.59.pr

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