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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §6.1.53.pr

Denial of Right to Remove Crops upon Eviction

Passage 1124 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius states that if a possessor of land has cultivated or sown it, and the land is subsequently evicted, they cannot carry away what has been planted.

[POMPONIUS libro trigensimo primo ad Sabinum. ] §6.1.53.prSi fundi possessor eum excoluisset seuissetue et postea fundus euincatur, consita tollere non potest.
[POMPONIUS in the thirty-first book on Sabinus.] If the possessor of a piece of land has cultivated or sown it, and afterwards the land is evicted, he cannot take away what has been planted.

Notes

  1. §6.1.53.prexcoluisset seuissetue et postea fundus euincatur — In the conditional clause introduced by `Si`, different tenses of the subjunctive are used: the pluperfect `excoluisset` (and `seuisset`) and the present `euincatur`. This indicates a temporal sequence where the cultivation or sowing was completed by the possessor prior to the subsequent eviction (`euictio`) of the land.
  2. §6.1.53.prconsita — The accusative neuter plural of the perfect passive participle of `consero` (to plant, sow), used substantively to mean "what has been planted" or "sown crops". It functions as the direct object of the infinitive `tollere` (to take away).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §6.1.53.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:6.1.53.pr

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