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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §7.8.20.pr

Acquisition through a Slave Employed as a Shop-Manager by the Usuary

Passage 1333 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It discusses the acquisition of property for the usuary of a slave, specifically when the slave acts as a shop-manager or receives goods by delivery under the usuary's order.

[MARCELLUS libro tertio decimo digestorum. ] §7.8.20.prSeruus, cuius mihi usus legatus est, adquirit mihi, si institor erit et operis eius utar in taberna: nam mercibus uendundis emendisque adquirit mihi: sed et si iussu meo per traditionem accipiet.
[MARCELLUS, in the thirteenth book of the Digests.] A slave, the use of whom has been bequeathed to me, acquires for me if he is a shop-manager and I employ his services in a shop; for he acquires for me by buying and selling merchandise; but also if he receives anything by delivery by my order.

Notes

  1. §7.8.20.properis eius utar — utar is the future indicative first-person singular of the deponent verb utor (to use), which governs the ablative case. operis is the plural ablative of opera (labor, services), here referring to the physical labor or services provided by the slave.
  2. §7.8.20.pruendundis emendisque — These are archaic spellings (-undus) of the gerundives uendendis and emendisque, agreeing in gender, number, and case with the noun mercibus (ablative plural of merx, "merchandise"). It functions as an ablative of means.

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