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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §45.3.15.pr

Acquisition by Slave Stipulation Regardless of Designated Recipient

Passage 7523 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Florentinus explains that regardless of whom the slave stipulates the recipient to be (the master, himself, a fellow slave, or unspecified), the acquisition always accrues to the master.

[FLORENTINUS libro octauo institutionum. ] §45.3.15.prSiue mihi siue sibi siue conseruo suo siue inpersonaliter dari seruus meus stipuletur, mihi adquiret.
[FLORENTINUS, from the eighth book of the Institutes.] Whether my slave stipulates for something to be given to me, to himself, to his fellow slave, or impersonally, he acquires it for me.

Notes

  1. §45.3.15.prdari — The present passive infinitive of the transitive verb dare, serving as a complementary infinitive that functions as the object of the verb stipuletur (to stipulate). The datives mihi, sibi, and conseruo suo grammatically depend on this dari ('to be given to...').
  2. §45.3.15.pradquiret — The third-person singular future indicative of the third-conjugation verb adquirere (to acquire; the present being adquirit and the present subjunctive adquirat). It expresses the legal consequence as a certain future event in response to the conditional clause siue... stipuletur (present subjunctive).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §45.3.15.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:45.3.15.pr

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