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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §13.7.14.pr

Creditor's Standard of Care for Pledged Property

Passage 2152 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that the standard of care required of a creditor regarding a pledge is that of a "diligent head of a household" (equivalent to the standard of reasonable care).

[PAULUS libro uicensimo nono ad edictum. ] §13.7.14.prEa igitur, quae diligens pater familias in suis rebus praestare solet, a creditore exiguntur.
[PAULUS, on the Edict, Book XXIX] Therefore, those things which a diligent head of a household is accustomed to afford in his own affairs are required of the creditor.

Notes

  1. 13.7.14.prpraestare — The direct object of the transitive verb praestare (to afford, manifest, or warrant) is the relative pronoun quae, whose antecedent is the neuter plural pronoun Ea, the subject of the main passive verb exiguntur. Legally, what a "diligent head of a household" (diligens pater familias) is expected to provide is "diligence" (diligentia), but here it is generalized as "those things which..." (Ea, quae...) in connection with the liabilities (negligence, custody) discussed in the preceding section (§13.7.13.1).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §13.7.14.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:13.7.14.pr

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