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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.136.pr

Legal Protection and Effects of Good-Faith Possession

Passage 9196 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that as long as there is no legal obstacle, good faith provides a possessor with the same benefits as the actual truth of the matter.

[PAULUS libro octauo decimo ad edictum. ] §50.17.136.prBona fides tantundem possidenti praestat, quantum ueritas, quotiens lex impedimento non est.
[PAULUS, in the eighteenth book on the edict.] Good faith secures as much to a possessor as the truth does, whenever the law is not an obstacle.

Notes

  1. §50.17.136.prBona fides tantundem possidenti praestat, quantum ueritas — The correlative structure tantundem... quantum ('as much... as'). After quantum, the verb praestat (or praestat possidenti) is omitted, comparing the legal effects secured to a possessor by ueritas (truth, i.e., the actual legal right) with those secured by bona fides (good faith).
  2. §50.17.136.primpedimento — Dative of purpose (or predicative dative). Used with esse to form the predicate expression 'to be a hindrance/obstacle' (part of a double dative construction, where the dative of person is implied or shared with possidenti).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.136.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.136.pr

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