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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
Ulpian explains the qualifications of solvent sureties for appearance in court, the relaxed standards of security allowed for certain close relatives, and the extent of the surety's liability in case of non-appearance.
[ULPIANUS libro quinto ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS, in the fifth book on the Edict.]
Fideiussor in iudicio sistendi causa locuples uidetur dari1 non tantum ex facultatibus, sed etiam ex conueniendi facilitate.
A surety given for the purpose of appearance in court is deemed solvent not only from his means, but also from the ease of summoning him.
Si quis his personis, quae agere non potuerunt, fideiussorem iudicio sistendi causa dederit, frustra erit datio.
If anyone provides a surety for the purpose of appearance in court for those persons who could not conduct a lawsuit, the provision will be in vain.
Praetor ait: 'Si quis parentem, patronum patronam, liberos aut parentes patroni 'patronae, liberosue suos eumue quem in potestate habebit, uel uxorem, uel nurum in iudicium uocabit: qualiscumque fideiussor iudicio sistendi causa accipiatur.
The praetor says: ‘If anyone summons to court a parent, a patron, a patroness, the children or parents of a patron or patroness, or his own children, or one whom he has in his power, or a wife, or a daughter-in-law: let any kind of surety whatsoever be accepted for the purpose of appearance in court.’
Quod ait praetor 'liberosue suos', accipiemus et ex feminino sexu descendentes liberos. parentique dabimus hoc beneficium non solum sui iurís, sed etiam si in potestate sit alicuius: hoc enim Pomponius scribit. et filius fideiussor pro patre fieri potest, etiam si in alterius potestate sit. nurum etiam pronurum et deinceps accipere debemus.
As to the praetor’s words ‘or his own children’, we shall include also children descended from the female sex. And we shall grant this benefit to a parent not only if he is independent, but also if he is in the power of someone else; for Pomponius writes this. And a son can become a surety for his father, even if he is in another’s power. We ought to understand by daughter-in-law also a grandson’s wife, and so on.
Quod ait praetor 'qualiscumque fideiussor accipiatur': hoc quantum ad facultates, id est etiam non locuples.
As to the praetor’s words ‘let any kind of surety be accepted’: this is in respect of his means, that is, even one who is not solvent.
In fideiussorem, qui aliquem iudicio sisti promiserit, tanti quanti2 ea res erit actionem dat praetor. quod utrum ueritatem contineat an uero quantitatem, uideamus. et melius est ut in ueram quantitatem fideiussor teneatur, nisi pro certa quantitate accessit.
Against a surety who has promised that someone will appear in court, the praetor grants an action for as much as the matter is worth. Let us see whether this means the actual value or rather the nominal amount. And it is better that the surety be held liable for the true amount, unless he has intervened for a specific amount.
- 2.8.2.prlocuples uidetur dari
The adjective locuples (solvent) is a nominative complement agreeing with the subject fideiussor, used with the personal construction of uidetur (is deemed) rather than an impersonal construction. The passive infinitive dari functions as the complementary infinitive to uidetur. The whole phrase means 'a surety is deemed to be given as solvent'.
- 2.8.2.5tanti quanti
A genitive of value or price (genitive of price), defining the amount of the claim in the actionem. The clause ea res erit literally means 'as much as that matter will be worth' in the future tense, referring to the actual value.