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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.64.pr

Exclusion of Rare and Extraordinary Events from Transactions

Passage 9124 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text expresses the legal principle that extraordinary or rare events are not to be normally anticipated or factored into standard business transactions.

[IDEM libro uicensimo nono digestorum. ] §50.17.64.prEa, quae raro accidunt, non temere in agendis negotiis computantur.
[THE SAME, in the twenty-ninth book of the Digests.] Those things which rarely happen are not lightly taken into account in conducting business transactions.

Notes

  1. §50.17.64.prin agendis negotiis — A gerundive construction where the gerundive 'agendis' agrees in gender, number, and case with the noun 'negotiis' governed by the preposition 'in', meaning 'in the conducting of business' or 'in transacting business'.
  2. §50.17.64.prnon temere — The adverb 'temere' (blindly, casually) combined with 'non' functions as a qualified negation meaning 'not lightly', 'not easily', or 'not normally'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.64.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.64.pr

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