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SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY NATURAL LAW
seller depends on his good or bad faith. The first allows for a limited liability such as price reduction at most. The latter triggers a full responsibility. Some scholars look at Castilian law for inspiration.192 Yet, contrary to the natural law scholars discussed in this section, usus modernus-scholars do not provide the choices they make with a theoretical basis.
 192 Lauterbach, Resolutiones, to D. 19.1, q. 5, p. 361; idem, Collegii, to D. 19.1, §12, p. 1322: 'sciens propter dolum actione emptio convenitur ad interesse; d.l. 1, §1, l. pr., l. 39, ff. h.t. Gomez. d. n. 45.. .'; Berger, Oeconomia, 3.5.15, nota 4, p. 666: 'Venditorem, qui celavit emtorem servitutem, canonem, censum aut pignus, in re emta constitutum, actione emti ad id, quod interest, teneri, si quidem onera scierit, l. 6,13 et 30 de act. emt. vend. sin minus, ad id praestandum quanti minoris ipse onerum conscius, emisset, d.l. 13 et 41 d.t., ...'; Wernher, Manuale, to D. 19.1, no. 7, p. 180: 'sciens propter dolum ad interesse tenetur.. .ignorans vero obligatur quanti minoris alter emturus fuerat, si scivisset, servitutem impositam esse'.
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