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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §44.4.10.pr

Building on Land Gifted by a Spouse and Defense of Fraud

Passage 7273 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

States the majority opinion among jurists that if a husband or wife builds on land gifted to them, they can preserve the value of the property by pleading the exception of dolus malus.

[MARCIANUS libro tertio regularum. ] §44.4.10.prCum uir aut uxor in area sibi donata aliquid aedificasset, plerisque placet doli mali exceptione posita rem seruari posse.
[MARCIANUS in the third book of Rules.] When a husband or a wife has built something on a piece of land gifted to them, it is approved by most authorities that the property can be preserved by pleading the exception of dolus malus.

Notes

  1. §44.4.10.prplerisque placet — The impersonal verb placet (it is approved / it is the opinion) takes the following accusative with infinitive clause "rem seruari posse" (that the property can be preserved) as its subject. The dative plerisque means "to most (jurists)."
  2. §44.4.10.prdoli mali exceptione posita — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun exceptione and the perfect participle posita (from ponere, to plead or set up), expressing means or condition: "by pleading the exception of dolus malus."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §44.4.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:44.4.10.pr

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