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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.3.16.pr

Provision of Security for Conditional Debts in Partition

Passage 1711 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that when co-owners divide their common relationship, it is customary to provide security for conditional debts.

[IDEM libro sexto ad Plautium. ] §10.3.16.prCum socii diuidunt societatem, de eo, quod sub condicione deberetur, cautiones interuenire solent.
[THE SAME, on Plautius, book VI.] When co-owners divide their common relationship, it is customary for security to be given in respect of that which is owed conditionally.

Notes

  1. 10.3.16.prdeberetur — The subjunctive imperfect is used to express the hypothetical nature of a debt that is undetermined at the time of division ("what might be owed conditionally"), or to convey a characterizing relative clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.3.16.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.3.16.pr

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