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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §13.6.4.pr

Loan of Money for the Purpose of Formal Payment

Passage 2118 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains the case where money is loaned for the specific purpose of standing in, for form's sake, in place of payment.

[GAIUS libro primo de uerborum obligationibus. ] §13.6.4.prSaepe etiam ad hoc commodantur pecuniae, ut dicis gratia numerationis loco intercedant.
[GAIUS, from the first book on Verbal Obligations.] Often, money is also loaned for this purpose, so that it may stand in, for form's sake, in place of payment.

Notes

  1. 13.6.4.prdicis gratia — An idiomatic phrase meaning "for form's sake" or "for appearance's sake." `dicis` is considered the genitive of a rare or defective noun (possibly related to the Greek δίκη), here paired with the postpositive ablative `gratia` ("for the sake of").
  2. 13.6.4.prnumerationis loco — The word `loco` (ablative singular of `locus`), construed with the genitive `numerationis` (payment, counting out), functions prepositionally to mean "in place of" or "instead of."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §13.6.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:13.6.4.pr

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