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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §14.6.15.pr

Loans to Sons by Cities and the Senate Decree

Passage 2254 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that it makes no difference whether the lender to a son under family authority is a private individual or a city, as the emperors Severus and Antoninus confirmed in a rescript that the senate decree applies to cities as well.

[MARCIANUS libro quarto decimo institutionum. ] §14.6.15.prNihil interest, quis filio familias crediderit, utrum priuatus an ciuitas: nam in ciuitate quoque senatus consultum locum habere diui Seuerus et Antoninus rescripserunt.
[MARCIANUS, Institutes, Book 14] It makes no difference who has lent money to a son of the family, whether a private individual or a city; for the deified Severus and Antoninus wrote in a rescript that the senate decree also applies in the case of a city.

Notes

  1. §14.6.15.prNihil interest, quis filio familias crediderit — An indirect question clause introduced by the interrogative pronoun 'quis' serves as the subject of the impersonal verb 'interest', with the verb 'crediderit' in the perfect subjunctive (active, third-person singular). 'filio familias' is in the dative, acting as the indirect object of 'credere' (to lend/trust).
  2. §14.6.15.prutrum priuatus an ciuitas — The double alternative construction 'utrum... an...' (whether... or...) serves here appositionally to specify the identity of the subject 'quis', or is understood by supplying the ellipsis: 'utrum priuatus [crediderit] an ciuitas [crediderit]'.
  3. §14.6.15.prsenatus consultum locum habere — An accusative-with-infinitive (AcI) construction serving as the object of the verb 'rescripserunt' (replied by rescript). The subject-accusative is 'senatus consultum' and the infinitive is 'locum habere' (literally 'to have a place', meaning 'to apply' or 'to be applicable').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §14.6.15.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:14.6.15.pr

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