- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-06
This section addresses the obligation to restore what was exacted when not due during the management of another's business, and the self-responsibility for paying what was not due.
[PAULUS libro uicensimo ad edictum.]
[PAULUS, On the Edict, book twenty]
Si quis negotia aliena gerens indebitum exegerit, restituere cogitur: de eo autem, quod indebitum soluit, magis est ut1 sibi imputare debeat.2
If anyone, in managing another’s business, has exacted what was not due, he is compelled to restore it; but concerning that which he paid when it was not due, it is more reasonable that he should impute it to himself.
- 3.5.22.prmagis est ut
An impersonal expression magis est followed by an ut clause with the subjunctive (debeat), meaning "it is more reasonable that..." or "it is the better opinion that...", indicating a prevailing legal view.
- 3.5.22.prsibi imputare debeat
The verb imputare (to impute, reckon) with the dative sibi (to oneself), meaning "he ought to attribute it to himself" or "he must bear the responsibility himself," referring to the manager's own negligence or liability in making an undue payment.