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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.163.pr

Right to Sell and Grant Included in the Right to Donate

Passage 9223 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states the legal principle that anyone who has the right to donate a property also has the right to sell and to grant it.

[ULPIANUS libro quinquagensimo quinto ad edictum. ] §50.17.163.prCui ius est donandi, eidem et uendendi et concedendi ius est.
[ULPIANUS, in the fifty-fifth book on the edict.] He who has the right of making a gift, has also the right of selling and of granting.

Notes

  1. 50.17.163.prCui... eidem — The relative pronoun cui and the demonstrative eidem both function as datives of possession with the verb est, forming the structure "to whom there is... to the same there is...". The relative clause precedes and is correlative with eidem in the main clause.
  2. 50.17.163.prdonandi, uendendi, concedendi — These are the genitive forms of the gerund of donare (to give/donate), uendere (to sell), and concedere (to grant/yield), respectively, modifying the noun ius (right) to specify the action permitted.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.163.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.163.pr

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