- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
Paulus states that all obligations must be regarded as contracts, meaning that wherever an obligation arises, a contract is deemed to have been concluded, regardless of whether the debt stems from a loan.
[PAULUS libro quinquagesimo octauo ad edictum.]
[PAULUS, in the fifty-eighth book on the Edict.]
Omnem obligationem pro contractu habendam existimandum est,1 ut ubicumque aliquis obligetur, et2 contrahi uideatur, quamuis non ex crediti causa debeatur.
It must be held that every obligation is to be regarded as a contract, so that wherever anyone becomes bound, a contract is also deemed to be concluded, even if the debt does not arise from a cause of loan.
- 5.1.20.prexistimandum est
The impersonal passive periphrastic existimandum est ("it must be thought") forms the main clause, governing an accusative with infinitive structure where omnem obligationem is the subject of another gerundive phrase habendam [esse] ("to be regarded").
- 5.1.20.pret
The particle et here functions adverbially as "also" or "even" (equivalent to etiam), correlating with ubicunque aliquis obligetur to emphasize that "there too" a contract is deemed to be concluded.