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- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-28
Explains the etymology and definition of security (satisdatio) by analogy with satisfaction (satisfactio), defining it as providing sureties to make the adversary secure.
[GAIUS libro quinto ad edictum prouinciale.]
[GAIUS, in the fifth book on the Provincial Edict.]
Satisdatio eodem modo appellate est1 quo satisfactio. nam ut satisfacere dicimur ei, cuius desiderium implemus, ita satisdare dicimur aduersario nostro, qui pro eo, quod a nobis petiit, ita cauit, ut2 eum hoc nomine securum faciamus datis fideiussoribus.3
Security is named in the same manner as satisfaction. For just as we are said to satisfy him whose desire we fulfill, so we are said to give security to our adversary, who, in respect of that which he has demanded from us, has so provided that we should make him secure on this account by providing sureties.
- 2.8.1.prappellate est
The manuscripts read 'appellate est', but since the subject 'satisdatio' is feminine, it should be emended to and construed as 'appellata est' (perfect passive).
- 2.8.1.prita cauit, ut
The verb 'cauere' (to provide, demand security) accompanied by the adverb 'ita' introduces the 'ut' clause (with the present subjunctive 'faciamus'). It indicates that the adversary has 'so provided' or 'taken precautions' in such a manner that the following condition (the 'ut' clause) is met.
- 2.8.1.prdatis fideiussoribus
An ablative absolute construction formed by the plural ablative of 'fideiussor' (surety) and 'datis' (perfect passive participle of 'dare' in the ablative plural). It expresses the means or condition: 'by providing sureties' or 'sureties having been given'.