The Digest of Justinian, Volume 2.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Content -- Book Sixteen -- 1. The Senatus Consultum Velleianum -- 2. Set-Off -- 3. The Action and Contrary Action on Deposit -- Book Seventeen -- 1. The Action on Mandate or the Counteraction -- 2. Partnership -- Book Eighteen -- 1. Conclusion of the Contract of Purchase, Special Terms Agreed between the Vendor and Purchaser, and Things Which Cannot Be Sold -- 2. In Diem Addictio -- 3. The Forfeiture Clause -- 4. Sale of an Inheritance or of a Right of Action -- 5. Rescission of a Sale and the Circumstances in Which a Purchase May Be Departed From -- 6. Risk and Benefit of the Thing Sold -- 7. Slaves To Be Exported: The Sale of Slaves with a Provision That They Be (or Not Be) Manumitted -- Book Nineteen -- 1. The Actions for Sale and Purchase -- 2. Lease and Hire -- 3. The Action for Brokerage -- 4. Barter -- 5. The Actio Praescriptis Verbis and the Actio in Factum -- Book Twenty -- 1. Formation and Terms of Pignus and Hypotheca -- 2. Implied Pignus or Hypotheca -- 3. Property Which Cannot Be Subject to Pignus or Hypotheca -- 4. Priority in Pipus or Hypotheca and Displacing an Earlier Creditor -- 5. Sale of Property Subject to Pignus or Hypotheca -- 6. Ending a Pzgnus or Hypotheca -- Book Twenty-One -- 1. The Edict of the Aedile, Rescission, and the Action for Diminution -- 2. Evictions and the Stipulation for Double the Price -- 3. The Defense That the Thing Has Been Sold and Delivered -- Book Twenty-Two -- 1. Interest, Fruits, Incidentals, Accessions, and Delays -- 2. Transmarine Loans -- 3. Proof and Presumptions -- 4. Documentary Evidence and Loss of Documents -- 5. Witnesses -- 6. Mistake of Law and Fact -- BookTwenty-Three -- 1. Betrothals -- 2. Formation of Marriage -- 3. The Law of Dowry -- 4. Dotal Pacts -- 5. Dotal Land -- Book Twenty-Four -- 1. Gifts between Husband and Wife.

2. Divorces and Repudiations -- 3. The Recovery of the Dowry on Dissolution of the Marriage -- Book Twenty-Five -- 1. Expenses Incurred in Connection with Dotal Property -- 2. The Action for Property Unlawfully Removed -- 3. The Recognition and Maintenance of Children, Parents, Patrons, and Freedmen -- 4. The Examination of Pregnant Women and the Observation of Delivery -- 5. Where a Woman Is Placed in Possession on behalf of Her Unborn Child, and This Possession Is Said To Have Been Fraudulently Transferred to Another Person -- 6. Where A Woman Is Said To Have Obtained Possession on behalf of Her Unborn Child by a False Statement -- 7 Concubines -- Book Twenty-Six -- 1. Tutelages -- 2. Testamentary Tutelage -- 3. The Confirmation in Office of a Tutor or Curator -- 4. Statutory Tutors -- 5. Tutors and Curators Appointed by Those Who Have the Power of Appointment, Who May Be Appointed, Special Cases -- 6. Those Who Request Tutors and When They Are To Be Requested -- 7. Management by Tutors and Curators and Their Liability, The Question Whether They Act or Not, Suits by or against One or All -- 8.The Authority and Consent of Tutors and Curators -- 9. When There Is an Actio in Faetum between Minores and a Tutor or Curator -- 10. Untrustworthy Tutors and Curators -- Book Twenty-Seven -- 1. Excuses -- 2. Where the Pupillus Ought To Be Brought Up and Reside and the Provision of Maintenance for Him -- 3. The Actions on Tutelage and for Liquidation of Accounts and the Actio Utilis for Curatorship -- 4. The Actio Contraria of Tutelage and the Actio Ulilis -- 5. One Who Acts Unasked as a Tutor or Curator -- 6. What Is Alleged To Have Been Done on the Authority of a Supposed Tutor -- 7. Tutors' and Curators' Verbal Guarantors, Nominators, and Heirs -- 8. Suits against Magistrates.

9. The Property of Those in Tutelage or Care When There Is No Order for Sale or Exchange -- 10. Curators Appointed for Lunatics and Others over Age -- BookTwenty-Eight -- 1. Those Who Can Make Wills and How Wills Are Made -- 2. The Institution of Children and Postumi as Heirs and their Disherison -- 3. A Will Which Has Not Been Lawfully Made, or Which Has Been Broken or Rendered Ineffectual -- 4. Matters Which Are Obliterated, Erased, or Written Over in a Will -- 5. The Institution of Heirs -- 6. Normal and Pupillary Substitution -- 7. Conditions on Institutions -- 8. The Right To Take Time for Consideration -- Book Twenty-Nine -- 1. The Soldier's Will -- 2. Taking Up or Failing To Take Up an Inheritance -- 3. How Wills Are Opened, Inspected, and Copied Out -- 4. Where Someone, Passing Over a Will, Takes Possession of an Inheritance on Intestacy or in Some Other Way -- 5. The Senatus Cmultum Silunianum and the Senatus Consulturn Claudianum -- Those Whose Wills May Not Be Opened -- 6. If a Person Has F'rohibited Someone from Making a Will or Has Compelled HimTo Make One -- 7. The Law of Codicils.

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