- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-28
It discusses that sureties approved by an arbiter are presumed solvent and notes that if the sureties subsequently fall into severe hardship, new security must be provided.
[PAULUS libro septuagensimo quinto ad edictum.]
[PAULUS, in the seventy-fifth book on the Edict.]
Si ab arbitro probati sunt fideiussores, pro locupletibus habendi sunt, cum potuerit1 querella ad competentem iudicem deferri, qui ex causa improbat ab arbitro probatos, alias improbatos probat:
If sureties have been approved by an arbiter, they must be regarded as solvent, since a complaint could have been referred to the competent judge, who, on cause shown, rejects those approved by the arbiter, or otherwise approves those who were rejected.
multoque magis, si sua uoluntate accepit fideiussores, contentus his esse debet. quod si medio tempore calamitas fideiussoribus insignis uel magna inopia accidit, causa cognita2 ex integro satisdandum erit.3
And much more so, if a party has accepted sureties of his own free will, he ought to be content with them. But if in the meantime a significant disaster or great poverty has befallen the sureties, security must be given anew after the case has been investigated.
- 2.8.10.prcum potuerit
The conjunction cum here indicates a causal or concessive background, taking the perfect subjunctive potuerit to express the circumstance that 'since (or although) a complaint could have been brought to the competent judge' (and was not).
- 2.8.10.1causa cognita
An ablative absolute formed by the noun causa and the perfect passive participle cognita of cognoscere, expressing a condition or time: 'after the case (or cause) has been investigated.'
- 2.8.10.1satisdandum erit
A passive periphrastic (gerundive) construction used impersonally with the future of esse (erit), meaning 'security will have to be given,' expressing obligation or necessity.