- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-07
This section explains that if a third party uses force to release a surety without any malice on the surety's part, the surety is not bound to restore the obligation of the principal debtor.
[PAULUS libro quarto IULIANI digestorum notat.]
[PAULUS, in his notes on the fourth book of Julian’s Digest.]
Si quis alius sine malitia fideiussoris ut fideiussori accepto fieret1 uim fecit, non tenebitur fideiussor, ut rei2 quoque obligationem restituat.
If someone else, without any malice on the part of the surety, used force in order that a release might be granted to the surety, the surety will not be bound to restore the obligation of the principal debtor as well.
- 4.2.11.praccepto fieret
This is a passive expression based on the phrase acceptum facere/ferre (to treat as received, i.e., to release), which effects acceptilatio (release of debt). accepto fieret functions as a variant of acceptum fieret ('that a release be made') or employs the ablative accepto ('that it be done by way of release').
- 4.2.11.prrei
Here rei is the genitive of reus (the principal debtor, i.e., reus promittendi). In Roman law, besides meaning a party to a lawsuit (defendant), reus also refers to a party to a contract, specifically the principal debtor in contrast to a surety (fideiussor).