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However, the giving of a dowry valued too cheaply, and an alienation made too cheaply in fraud of a patron, shall be rescinded, even if the low value is not below half of the just price, but less.
An heir, who has been ordered by the testator to sell a thing, will also use the benefit of this law, unless a specific quantity of price was defined by the testator and prescribed to the heir.
Nor does it matter whether a movable thing is involved in the sale, or a piece of land, or even an incorporeal thing, although the Emperor here only mentioned immovable property.
These things are so, provided the contracting parties were ignorant of the true price of the thing; for if someone knows the true price and yet sells it for much less, it does not seem that he should be aided by this law, except for him who was forced to sell by great necessity and poverty.
A sworn sale is also excepted. For if the contracting parties have sworn that they would not...