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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §47.7.12.pr

Vendor's Right of Action for Trees Felled before Sale

Passage 7980 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states that a person who has sold a tract of land still retains the right to bring an action for trees that were stealthily felled.

[IAUOLENUS libro quinto decimo ex Cassio. ] §47.7.12.prQui agrum uendidit, nihilo minus furtim arborum caesarum agere potest.
[JAVOLENUS on Cassius, book 15] He who has sold a tract of land can nonetheless bring an action for trees stealthily felled.

Notes

  1. §47.7.12.prfurtim arborum caesarum agere — The verb agere takes a genitive representing the charge or subject of the dispute ('to bring an action for...'). Here, it refers to bringing the action under the Twelve Tables for trees stealthily felled (actio de arboribus furtim caesis), in which the genitive phrase arborum caesarum is modified by the adverb furtim.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §47.7.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:47.7.12.pr

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