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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §14.6.12.pr

Loans to Sons with Paternal Knowledge or Order

Passage 2251 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paul's view on the non-application of the senate decree when a loan is made to a son with his father's knowledge or order, establishing that the beginning of the contract is the standard.

[PAULUS libro trigensimo ad edictum. ] §14.6.12.prSi tantum sciente patre creditum sit filio, dicendum est cessare senatus consultum.
[PAULUS, On the Edict, Book 30] If money has been lent to a son-in-power merely with the knowledge of his father, it must be said that the senate decree does not apply.
sed si iusserit pater filio credi, deinde ignorante creditore mutauerit uoluntatem, locus senatus consulto non erit, quoniam initium contractus spectandum est.
But if the father ordered that money be lent to his son, and then changed his mind without the creditor knowing, there will be no room for the senate decree, because the beginning of the contract must be looked at.

Notes

  1. §14.6.12.prsciente patre — An ablative absolute construction with the present participle 'sciente' and the noun 'patre', expressing a circumstance or condition: 'with the father's knowledge'.
  2. §14.6.12.priusserit pater filio credi — While the verb 'iubeo' typically governs an accusative, here it is used with the impersonal passive infinitive 'credi' (to be lent), which takes the dative complement 'filio' (literally, 'the father ordered that it be lent to the son').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §14.6.12.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:14.6.12.pr

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