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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §12.6.17.pr

Payment before Death and Bar to Recovery

Passage 1992 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian affirms the opinion of Celsus that if a person promises to pay upon their death but pays before that time, they cannot recover the payment.

[ULPIANUS libro secundo ad edictum. ] §12.6.17.prNam si cum moriar dare promisero et antea soluam, repetere me non posse Celsus ait: quae sententia uera est.
[ULPIAN, On the Edict, Book 2.] For if I should promise to give when I die and pay before that time, Celsus says that I cannot recover it; and this opinion is correct.

Notes

  1. §12.6.17.prpromisero ... soluam — Within the conditional clause introduced by si, the future perfect promisero ('if I shall have promised') and the future (or present subjunctive) soluam ('and pay') are coordinated, reflecting the temporal sequence where the act of promising precedes the act of paying.
  2. §12.6.17.prrepetere me non posse — An accusative-with-infinitive (A.C.I.) construction acting as the object of the verb ait. me is the subject accusative of the infinitive posse, and repetere is the complementary infinitive depending on posse.
  3. §12.6.17.prquae sententia — The relative pronoun quae is used adjectivally with sententia as a relative connection (connecting relative), serving to link the sentence and meaning 'and this (et haec) opinion.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §12.6.17.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:12.6.17.pr

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