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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.28.pr-50.16.28.1

Scope of Alienation and Statements Lacking Conjunctions

Passage 8842 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that the term 'alienation' encompasses usucaption and the loss of servitudes through non-use, but excludes the mere omission of an opportunity to acquire, while also stating the rule for interpreting statements lacking conjunctions or disjunctions.

[PAULUS libro uicensimo primo ad edictum. ] §50.16.28.prAlienationis' uerbum etiam usucapionem continet: uix est enim, ut non uideatur alienare, qui patitur usucapi.
[PAULUS, in the twenty-first book on the Edict.] The word 'alienation' also includes usucaption; for it is scarcely possible that he who allows a thing to be acquired by usucaption should not be deemed to alienate.
eum quoque alienare dicitur, qui non utendo amisit seruitutes.
He also who has lost servitudes by non-use is said to alienate.
qui occasione adquirendi non utitur, non intellegitur alienare: ueluti qui hereditatem omittit aut optionem intra certum tempus datam non amplectitur.
He who does not use an opportunity of acquiring is not understood to alienate: as, for example, one who waives an inheritance, or does not embrace an option given within a certain time.
§50.16.28.1Oratio, quae neque coniunctionem neque disiunctionem habet, ex mente pronuntiantis uel disiuncta uel coniuncta accipitur.
A statement which has neither a conjunction nor a disjunction is accepted as either disjunctive or conjunctive according to the intention of the person pronouncing it.

Notes

  1. §50.16.28.pruix est enim, ut non uideatur — The construction 'uix est ut...' (it is scarcely possible that...) is combined with the negative 'non' to express a strong affirmation ('it is almost inevitable that...'). The 'ut'-clause functions as the subject of the impersonal expression 'uix est'.
  2. §50.16.28.prqui patitur usucapi — The verb 'patitur' is the third-person singular present indicative of 'patior' (to allow), taking the present passive infinitive 'usucapi' (to be acquired by usucaption) as its complement, meaning 'one who allows (one's property) to be acquired by usucaption'.
  3. §50.16.28.preum quoque alienare dicitur — The verb 'dicitur' is used impersonally ('it is said'), taking the accusative with infinitive clause 'eum ... alienare' (that he alienates) as its subject. The pronoun 'eum', which is the antecedent of 'qui ... amisit', is in the accusative because it acts as the subject of this infinitive.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.28.pr-50.16.28.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.28.pr-50.16.28.1

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