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MEDIEVAL IUS COMMUNE
accommodate the law with the requirements of thomist-aristotelian thinking.149 This mode of legal reasoning would in subsequent ages be further developed and strengthened in early modern scholasticism and natural law theory.
Furthermore, medieval ius commune-scholars quietly extend the remedy for lesion beyond moiety to movables. Although C. 4.44.2 and C. 4.44.8 only mention a plot of land, the Accursian gloss discusses the just price of grain, which is a movable.150 In addition, Bartolus and Baldus, commenting on C. 4.44.2, discuss how the just price of grain, a movable thing, should be established in order to determine whether or not there has been a lesion beyond moiety.151 A result of this extension to movables enhances the remedy's scope considerably and enables its concurrence with remedies for defects. Whenever defective movables cause prejudice of more than half the thing's just price, remedies for both latent defects and lesion beyond moiety are available.
149 For Baldus' references to equity and aristotelianism see Gordley, Origins, p. 67.
150 Gloss iudicis to C. 4.44.2: 'in mobilibus autem rebus, ut frumento, est pretium certum', in: De la Porte,
p. 714.
151 Bartolus, Commentaria, to C. 4.44.2, no. 25, fo. 163v: 'In rebus vero mobilibus quae consistunt in
numero pondere vel mensura, qualiter debeat fieri probatio dixi in l. pretia rerum, ยง nonumquam, ff. ad leg. Fal.' \[D. 35.2.63\]; Bartolus, Commentaria, to D. 35.2.63, no. 3, fo. 135v: 'Quaero qualiter probabitur aestimatio frumenti praeteriti? Et gl. in l. 2, C. de resc. vend. \[C. 4.44.2\] dicit...'; Baldus, Commentaria, to C. 4.44.2, no. 54, fo. 118v: 'si vero sunt mobiles, ut frumentum, facilior est probatio...'.
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