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CHAPTER SIX
immovables.249
It can be concluded that in the period just before the modern civil codes emerged, a majority of natural law and usus modernus scholars were in favour of preserving the remedy for lesion beyond moiety.250 Yet, notably in France, legal doctrine and practice restricted the use of the remedy for reasons of procedural economy. Secondly, Thomasius and a few other scholars attacked the foundations of the traditional just price theory by refuting the requirement of fairness in exchange as it was interpreted in early modern scholastic theory. Both currents influenced how the remedy for lesion beyond moiety would be incorporated in later codification projects. We will see that the position remedies for defects would occupy in the civil codes fluctuates with that of the remedy for lesion beyond moiety.
 249 Routier, Principes géneraux, 7.1.2, no. 5, p. 333: 'Tout contrat de vente peut se résoudre... ou pour les causes qui rendent nuls les autres contrats, comme... le dol... la lésion d'outre moitié du juste prix, qui n'a lieu que pour le vendeur et non pour l'acheteur...'; 4.11.4, p. 427: 'Le vendeur peut être restitué contre le contrat de vente d'un immeuble, lorsqu'il souffre une lézion d'outre moitié du just prix...'. Routier refers to Dupineau, Coûtumes, ch. 13 and 14, pp. 711-715.
250 Schulze, Die Laesio, p. 35. Schulze's reference to Wolf'f is unconvincing, since Wolff gives multiple examples of why certain goods (e.g. necessities) should have a low price, i.e. should be assessed by a yardstick other than the parties' free will. Cf. Idem, vol. 4, § 304, p. 230.
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