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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §14.6.4.pr

Actual Payment as the Criterion for Loans to Sons

Passage 2243 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Scaevola explains that the prohibition against lending to a filius familias should be judged on the basis of the actual payment of money, rather than the formal words of the contract.

[SCAEUOLA libro secundo quaestionum. ] §14.6.4.prquia quod uolgo dicitur filio familias credi non licere, non ad uerba referundum est, sed ad numerationem.
[SCAEVOLA, Questions, Book 2] because what is commonly said, that credit may not be given to a filius familias, is to be referred not to the words, but to the actual payment.

Notes

  1. §14.6.4.prquod uolgo dicitur filio familias credi non licere — The pronoun quod is a relative with an implied antecedent, forming a noun clause "what is commonly said..." which serves as the subject of referundum est. credi is an impersonal passive infinitive with the dative filio familias, meaning "credit to be given to a filius familias."
  2. §14.6.4.prreferundum est — A gerundive of obligation composed of referundum (an archaic spelling of referendum) and est. The phrase referre ad means "to refer to" or "to judge by reference to," showing that whether credit has been extended must be determined not by the formal words (uerba) of the transaction, but by the actual counting out of money (numeratio).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §14.6.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:14.6.4.pr

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