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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §12.1.28.pr

Right to Recover Balance After Insufficient Pledge

Passage 1883 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This fragment provides that a creditor who accepts an insufficient pledge does not lose the right to recover the remaining portion of the debt that the pledge is inadequate to cover.

[GAIUS libro uicensimo primo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §12.1.28.prCreditor, qui non idoneum pignus accepit, non amittit exactionem eius debiti quantitatis, in quam pignus non sufficit.
[GAIUS from the twenty-first book on the Provincial Edict.] A creditor who has accepted an insufficient pledge does not lose the right to exact that amount of the debt for which the pledge is not sufficient.

Notes

  1. §12.1.28.prin quam pignus non sufficit — The antecedent of the relative pronoun `quam` is `quantitatis`. The verb `sufficere` combined with the preposition `in` and the accusative case means "to be sufficient for" or "to cover," referring here to the portion of the debt that the pledge is insufficient to cover.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §12.1.28.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:12.1.28.pr

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