- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.8.26.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
Explains the legal rule that prevents the incurrence of a penalty from depending on the will of the guarantors if they subsequently refuse to act as such or die.
[PAULUS libro tertio decimo ad edictum.]
[PAULUS in his thirteenth book on the Edict.]
ne in potestate sit fideiussorum postea se non obligantium,1 ut poena committatur.2 idemque et si decesserint.
so that it may not be in the power of the guarantors, by subsequently refusing to bind themselves, to cause the penalty to be incurred. And the same applies even if they have died.
- 4.8.26.prpostea se non obligantium
A present participle phrase modifying the genitive noun 'fideiussorum'. The verb 'obligare' used with the reflexive pronoun 'se' means 'to bind oneself (by security)'. Here it refers to 'those who subsequently refuse to bind themselves' for the renewed compromise.
- 4.8.26.prne in potestate sit fideiussorum ... ut poena committatur
A clause introduced by the conjunction of purpose 'ne'. Within it, the 'ut poena committatur' clause (that the penalty is incurred) functions substantially as the subject or a clause defining the content of 'in potestate sit' (to be in the power of).