Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §14.5.6.pr

Liability in Mandate for Fraudulent Pretence of Status

Passage 2237 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Marcellus states that a person who pretends to be a paterfamilias and stipulates on another's mandate is liable under mandate even if unable to perform, a rule justified by his malice and applicable to all actions of good faith.

[ULPIANUS libro secundo disputationum. ] §14.5.6.prEum, qui se patrem familias simulauit et mandante aliquo stipulatus est, mandati teneri Marcellus scribsit, quamuis rem praestare non possit: et sane uerum est teneri eum debere, quia dolo fecit.

[ULPIANUS, Disputations, Book 2] Marcellus wrote that a person who pretended to be a paterfamilias and entered into a stipulation on the mandate of someone, is held liable on the mandate, even though he cannot perform the obligation; and indeed it is true that he ought to be held liable, because he acted with malice.

hoc et in omnibus bonae fidei iudiciis dicendum erit.

This will also have to be said in all bonae fidei iudicia.

Notes

14.5.6.prmandati teneri — The genitive "mandati" specifies the type of action or liability (genitive of charge/liability), meaning "to be held liable on the action of mandate".
14.5.6.prmandante aliquo — Ablative absolute constructed with "aliquo" (ablative of the indefinite pronoun "aliquis") and "mandante" (present participle ablative of "mando"), meaning "on the mandate of someone" or "with someone mandating".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §14.5.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:14.5.6.pr

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