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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §12.1.26.pr

Action of a Soldier for Money Lent by an Agent

Passage 1881 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that if a soldier's agent lends the soldier's money, an action should be granted to the soldier himself, following the analogy of tutors and curators acting for their wards.

[IDEM libro quinto opinionum. ] §12.1.26.prSi pecuniam militis procurator eius mutuam dedit fideiussoremque accepit, exemplo eo quo si tutor pupilli aut curator iuuenis pecuniam alterutrius eorum creditam stipulatus fuerit, actionem dari militi cuius pecunia fuerit placuit.
[THE SAME from the fifth book of Opinions.] If the agent of a soldier has lent the soldier's money as a loan and has received a guarantor, it has been approved, after the example of the case where the tutor of a pupil or the curator of a youth has stipulated for the lent money of either of them, that an action be given to the soldier whose money it was.

Notes

  1. §12.1.26.prexemplo eo quo si — Syntactical structure. The ablative phrase 'exemplo eo' (expressing manner or criterion) is modified by a relative clause introduced by the ablative 'quo', which contains the conditional clause 'si...', meaning 'by the example of the case where...'.
  2. §12.1.26.prstipulatus fuerit — The perfect (or future perfect) subjunctive of the deponent verb 'stipulari' with active meaning, referring to a tutor or curator entering into a formal verbal contract (stipulatio) to secure repayment.
  3. §12.1.26.practionem dari militi ... placuit — The accusative and infinitive clause 'actionem dari' functions as the subject of the impersonal verb 'placuit' ('it was approved/decided'). The relative clause 'cuius pecunia fuerit' modifies 'militi'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §12.1.26.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:12.1.26.pr

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