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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.3.27.pr

Defective Delivery and the Right to Claim the Thing

Passage 7682 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian discusses that even if the owed thing has been delivered, if there is still a defect in the right to it and some right of guarantee remains, the thing itself can still be claimed.

[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo octauo ad edictum. ] §46.3.27.prEtiam circa stipulationem et ex testamento actionem, si res tradita fuerit quae debebatur, quamdiu aliquid iuri rei deest, adhuc tamen ipsa res petenda est: ut puta possum fundum petere, licet mihi traditus sit, si ius quoddam cautionis supererit.
[ULPIAN in the twenty-eighth book on the Edict.] Also regarding a stipulation and an action based on a will, if the thing which was owed has been delivered, as long as something is lacking from the right to the thing, the thing itself must nevertheless still be claimed: as, for example, I can claim a tract of land, although it has been delivered to me, if some right of guarantee remains.

Notes

  1. §46.3.27.priuri rei deest — The term iuri is the dative singular of ius (right/legal status) governed by deest (deesse, to be lacking), and rei is the genitive singular of res (thing). It literally means "something is lacking to the right of the thing," indicating that the legal title or right to the delivered property is incomplete.
  2. §46.3.27.prlicet mihi traditus sit — The conjunction licet (although / even if) introduces a concessive clause and is construed with the subjunctive mood (here, traditus sit, perfect passive subjunctive).

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