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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.179.pr

Legal Equivalence of Clauses for True Valuation of Property

Passage 8993 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that there is no legal difference between two valuation clauses, as both require a true valuation of the property.

[IDEM libro quinquagensimo primo ad Sabinum. ] §50.16.179.prInter haec uerba 'quanti ea res erit' uel 'quanti eam rem esse paret' nihil interest: in utraque enim clausula placet ueram rei aestimationem fieri.
[THE SAME, in the fifty-first book on Sabinus.] Between these words, "what the value of the property will be" or "what it appears the value of the property is", there is no difference; for in both clauses it is accepted that a true valuation of the property should be made.

Notes

  1. §50.16.179.prquanti — The genitive singular of the interrogative pronoun quantus (how great), functioning as a genitive of value, meaning "of how much value" or "how much".
  2. §50.16.179.prparet — The third-person singular present of pareo (to be clear/apparent), used impersonally in classical Roman legal formulas to express a judicial finding ("it is clear/apparent that"). Here it governs the accusative and infinitive construction (eam rem esse quanti).
  3. §50.16.179.prplacet — Used impersonally to mean "it is resolved/accepted/held", taking the accusative and infinitive clause ueram rei aestimationem fieri as its subject, indicating a general consensus or legal maxim among jurists.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.179.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.179.pr

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