- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.14.51.pr-2.14.51.1
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-31
This section explains that agreements not to sue or payment orders to a third party made under a mistaken belief do not extinguish pre-existing debt relations.
[IDEM libro uicensimo sexto ad edictum.]
[THE SAME, On the Edict, book 26]
Si cum te ex causa legati debere pacisci debitori tuo1 existimas, pactus sit ne ab eo peteres: neque iure ipso liberatur debitor neque petentem summouebit exceptione conuentionis, ut Celsus libro uicensimo scribit.
If, when you believe that you owe a debt to your debtor on account of a legacy, you have agreed not to sue him: the debtor is neither released ipso iure, nor will he bar the plaintiff by the exception of agreement, as Celsus writes in his twentieth book.
Idem eodem loco scribit, si debitorem tuum iussisti soluere Titio, cui legatum falso debere existimas, et debitor pactus sit cum Titio suo debitore constituto: neque tibi aduersus tuum debitorem neque ipsi aduersus suum actionem peremptam.2
The same author writes in the same place that if you have ordered your debtor to pay Titius, to whom you falsely believe you owe a legacy, and the debtor has made an agreement with Titius, who was established as his creditor: neither is your action against your debtor extinguished, nor is his action against his own.
- 2.14.51.prdebere pacisci debitori tuo
This passage contains a textual difficulty; 'debere' meaning 'to owe' governs the dative 'debitori tuo'. 'pacisci' is likely a corruption or a double reading of the subsequent 'pactus sis' (or 'pactus sit'). It is interpreted in the sense that 'you' falsely believe you owe a legacy to your debtor.
- 2.14.51.1ipsi aduersus suum actionem peremptam
The pronoun 'ipsi' refers to the debtor. 'suum' implies an omitted noun, referring to his newly appointed creditor Titius (suum creditorem). It means the action of the debtor against Titius is not extinguished.