- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-10
Ulpian discusses that if a debtor admits their debt and is ready to pay upon disclosure of an action, they should be heard and granted a moderate period for payment under competent security, defining this 'moderate time' as the period allowed after condemnation.
[ULPIANUS libro septuagensimo ad edictum.]
[ULPIAN, in the seventieth book on the Edict.]
Si debitori meo uelim actionem edere,1 probandum erit,2 si fateatur se debere paratumque dicat soluere, audiendum eum, dandumque diem cum competenti cautela ad soluendam pecuniam: neque enim magnum damnum est in mora modici temporis. modicum autem tempus hic intellegendum est, quod post condemnationem reis indultum est.
If I should wish to disclose an action to my debtor, it must be approved that, if he admits that he is indebted and says that he is ready to pay, he should be heard, and a period of time should be granted to him, with competent security, for paying the money; for there is no great loss in a delay of a moderate time. Moreover, by a moderate time we must here understand that which is allowed to defendants after condemnation.
- 5.1.21.practionem edere
A technical legal expression referring to the "disclosure of an action," which is a preparatory procedural step where the plaintiff informs the debtor of the specific action they intend to bring.
- 5.1.21.prprobandum erit
A future passive periphrastic form used impersonally. The following accusative with infinitive clauses, audiendum [esse] eum and dandumque [esse] diem..., function as the subject of probandum erit ("it should/will be approved that..."). The nested si clauses state the conditions under which these periphrastics should apply.