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No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
The work is a 1582 academic dissertation (a public defense of a thesis) by Johannes Naevius. Such ephemeral academic publications from the 16th century are rarely translated, and extensive searches across major library catalogs and scholarly databases yielded no record of any English translation. Given the nature of the text, it is highly probable that no translation exists.
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Johannes Naevius dissects the Roman law of commodatum with surgical precision. This work clarifies when a borrower is truly liable and when they are protected by superior force.