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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §13.5.28.pr

Promise to Pay by a Third Party and Debtor's Liability

Passage 2111 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that even when a promise of payment (constitutum) is made by someone on behalf of another, the original debtor still remains bound.

[GAIUS libro quinto ad edictum prouinciale. ] §13.5.28.prUbi quis pro alio constituit se soluturum, adhuc is, pro quo constituit, obligatus manet.
[GAIUS, from the fifth book on the Provincial Edict.] Where someone has promised that he will pay on behalf of another, the person on whose behalf he made the promise still remains bound.

Notes

  1. §13.5.28.prse soluturum — An accusative with infinitive construction (ACI) with the future active participle `soluturum` (with `esse` omitted). The reflexive pronoun `se` as the subject of the infinitive refers back to the subject of the governing verb `constituit` (the promisor `quis`).
  2. §13.5.28.pris, pro quo constituit — The subject of `constituit` within the relative clause `pro quo constituit` is the indefinite pronoun `quis` (the promisor) from the preceding `ubi` clause. The antecedent `is` refers to the original debtor on whose behalf the promise was made, serving as the subject of the main clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §13.5.28.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:13.5.28.pr

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