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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.66.pr

Application of the Term Merchandise to Movables Only

Passage 8880 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian clarifies that the legal term 'merchandise' applies only to movable property and not to immovable property.

[IDEM libro septuagensimo quarto ad edictum. ] §50.16.66.pr'Mercis' appellatio ad res mobiles tantum pertinet.
[THE SAME, on the Edict, book 74.] The term 'merchandise' refers only to movable things.

Notes

  1. §50.16.66.prMercis — Genitive singular (nominative: merx). It functions as a genitive of apposition (or definition) with the noun appellatio, meaning "the term 'merchandise'".
  2. §50.16.66.prres mobiles — A technical term in Roman law referring to "movable things" (chattels), contrasted with immovable things (res immobiles).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.66.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.66.pr

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