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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §45.1.136.pr-45.1.136.1

Different Names for the Object and Alienation Before Servitude

Passage 7484 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses the validity of a stipulation when parties refer to the same thing by different names, and the termination of a stipulation if the land is alienated before a servitude is established.

[PAULUS libro quinto sententiarum. ] §45.1.136.prSi sub una significatione diuersis nominibus ea res, quae in stipulatum deducitur, appellatur, non infirmat obligationem, si alter altero uerbo utatur.
[PAULUS, Opinions, book 5.] If the thing which is brought into the stipulation is called by different names under one and the same meaning, it does not invalidate the obligation if one party uses one word and the other uses another.
§45.1.136.1Si, qui uiam ad fundum suum dari stipulatus fuerit, postea fundum partemue eius ante constitutam seruitutem alienauerit, euanescit stipulatio.
If a person who has stipulated for a right of way to his land to be granted should afterwards alienate the land or a part of it before the servitude is established, the stipulation vanishes.

Notes

  1. 45.1.136.pralter altero uerbo utatur — The phrase alter altero combines two pronouns to mean "one party uses one word (and the other uses another)." The verb utatur (present subjunctive of the deponent verb utor, which governs the ablative case) takes the ablative noun phrase altero uerbo as its object.
  2. 45.1.136.1qui uiam ad fundum suum dari stipulatus fuerit — The antecedent of the relative pronoun qui is omitted, and this implicit pronoun serves as the subject of the conditional clause's verb alienauerit. The infinitive phrase uiam ... dari (passive present infinitive) functions as the object (accusative with infinitive construction) of the verb of stipulation stipulatus fuerit (perfect deponent participle with fuerit, forming the future perfect or perfect subjunctive).
  3. 45.1.136.1ante constitutam seruitutem — The preposition ante (which governs the accusative) is followed by a noun-participle combination (constitutam seruitutem), meaning literally "before the established servitude," which is equivalent to "before the establishment of the servitude" (the so-called ab urbe condita construction).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §45.1.136.pr-45.1.136.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:45.1.136.pr-45.1.136.1

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