Showing posts with label venditio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label venditio. Show all posts

Sunday, January 27, 2013

For the lack of space avenditio was born

In my previous post  I talked how Paras omitted the negative prefix causing me a lot of headache in the process. This time Paras deleted the space between two words giving birth to an unknown term.

From page 1 of the Civil Code of the Philippines Annotated, Vol. V, 2013 Edition:


After defining sale, he delved into the history of the term and wrote that sale came from the Latin word avenditio. In another post  I discussed the difficulties of the claim of  Paras about the French and Spanish usage of the words a venta. In this post let's see how avenditio came into being.

Google Translate says that sale in Latin is venditionem or venditio. Not avenditionem nor avenditio.

Duhaime's Legal Dictionary translates venditio as a sale. Notice the space between the article and the noun.
Here's how Duhaime defines venditio:
A term of ancient Roman law but still reflected in the civil law and French language for which the verb for sale is vendre and the noun venteEven in English, a seller is known alternatively as a vendor. In Latin, a male seller is a venditor and a female, venditrix.
So how did Paras come up with avenditio? This passage from the book A Text-Book of Roman Law: From Augustus to Justinian  By W. W. Buckland may explain:


Or this footnote from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 4,  By Edward Gibbon:


The old editions of Paras contain the same word. I'd like to believe that this is just proofreading oversight. But who knows?