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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §44.4.3.pr

Recovery of Slave's Payment and Release of Seller

Passage 7263 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus states that if a buyer sues on purchase to recover money paid by a slave to be freed to the seller before the transfer of ownership, the action is available only if the buyer is prepared to release the seller from the stipulation for double the price.

[PAULUS libro septuagensimo primo ad edictum. ] §44.4.3.prItem si ob id, quod, antequam dominium ad me transferatur, uenditori dederit decem, agam ex empto, ut decem recipiam, ita puto competere mihi actionem, si paratus sim ex duplae stipulatione eum liberare.
[PAULUS, from the seventy-first book on the Edict.] Likewise, if on account of this, that before the ownership is transferred to me, [the slave to be freed] gave ten to the seller, I should sue on purchase in order to recover the ten, I think that the action is competent to me only in this way, if I am prepared to release him from the stipulation for double the price.

Notes

  1. §44.4.3.prdederit — The subject of this verb is not explicitly expressed but is understood from the context of the preceding fragment (Ulpian, §44.4.2.7) as the "slave to be freed (statuliber)".
  2. §44.4.3.prita... si — Used correlatively to introduce a restrictive condition: "only in this way, if..." or "on the condition that...".
  3. §44.4.3.preum — The accusative pronoun refers in this context to the "seller (uenditor)" who is liable to the buyer under the stipulation for double the price.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §44.4.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:44.4.3.pr

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