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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §14.6.13.pr

Novation of a Third Party Debt to a Son and the Decree

Passage 2252 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage presents Julian's view that if an existing debt lent to another is novated by stipulating it from a son-in-power, the senate decree does not act as an obstacle.

[GAIUS libro nono ad edictum prouinciale. ] §14.6.13.prSi quod alii mutuum dedimus a filio familias nouandi causa stipulemur, non esse impedimento senatus consultum Iulianus scribit.
[GAIUS, On the Provincial Edict, Book 9] Julian writes that if we stipulate for what we have lent to another from a son-in-power for the purpose of novation, the senate decree is not an obstacle.

Notes

  1. §14.6.13.prstipulemur — Refers to entering into a verbal contract (stipulatio), meaning 'to stipulate' or 'to exact a promise' from the creditor's perspective. It is in the first-person plural present subjunctive expressing a hypothetical condition.
  2. §14.6.13.primpedimento — A dative of purpose, which, in an incomplete double dative construction within the accusative and infinitive clause, forms the expression 'not to be an obstacle' (non esse impedimento) with 'senatus consultum' as the subject.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §14.6.13.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:14.6.13.pr

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