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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §14.6.10.pr

No Recovery of Payment Due to Natural Obligation

Passage 2249 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Points out that the reason why those who intervened for a son's debt cannot recover what they paid is that a natural obligation remains.

[PAULUS libro trigensimo ad edictum. ] §14.6.10.prquia naturalis obligatio manet,
[PAULUS, On the Edict, Book 30] because a natural obligation remains,

Notes

  1. §14.6.10.prquia naturalis obligatio manet — This subordinate clause explains the legal reason (the survival of a natural obligation) for the statement at the end of the preceding fragment by Ulpian (D. 14.6.9.4) that "they do not recover what they pay," showing a direct connection made by the compilers between different authors.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §14.6.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:14.6.10.pr

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