- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-06
It explains the legal principle that when a debtor pays money to a creditor's agent, ownership is not immediately transferred, but the creditor can acquire ownership and release the debtor by subsequent ratification.
[IDEM libro uicensimo quarto ad edictum.]
[THE SAME, On the Edict, book twenty-four]
Si ego hac mente pecuniam procuratori dem, ut ea ipsa creditoris fieret,1 proprietas quidem per procuratorem non adquiritur, potest tamen creditor etiam inuito me2 ratum habendo pecuniam suam facere, quia procurator in accipiendo creditoris dumtaxat negotium gessit: et ideo creditoris ratihabitione liberor.
If I should give money to an agent with this intention, that it should become the property of the creditor, ownership indeed is not acquired through the agent, yet the creditor can make the money his own, even against my will, by ratifying the transaction, because the agent in receiving it managed at least the business of the creditor; and therefore I am released by the ratification of the creditor.
- 3.5.23.prhac mente ... ut ea ipsa creditoris fieret
The ut clause explains the content of the intention anticipated by the demonstrative hac. While the main verb of the condition dem is in the present subjunctive, fieret in the ut clause is in the imperfect subjunctive, reflecting a subjective purpose or motivation traced back to a prior state of mind.
- 3.5.23.pretiam inuito me
An ablative absolute consisting of a pronoun (me) and an adjective (inuito), expressing a concessive meaning: "even against my will" or "even though I am unwilling."