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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.16.pr

No Imaginary Sale Where a Price Is Paid

Passage 9076 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian's legal principle stating that a sale is not considered imaginary if a price is actually paid.

[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo primo ad Sabinum. ] §50.17.16.prImaginaria uenditio non est pretio accedente.
[ULPIANUS, in his twenty-first book on Sabinus.] There is no imaginary sale where a price is added.

Notes

  1. §50.17.16.prpretio accedente — An ablative absolute construction formed by the noun pretio and the present participle accedente. It functions here as a conditional clause ('if a price is added') or situational clause ('when a price is paid').
  2. §50.17.16.prImaginaria uenditio non est — Imaginaria is an adjective meaning 'imaginary' or 'fictitious,' modifying uenditio (sale). non est can be understood as 'is not [an imaginary sale]' or 'does not exist,' indicating that if a price is actually paid, the transaction is treated as a real sale rather than a fictitious one.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.16.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.16.pr

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