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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §14.6.6.pr

Application of the Decree to Loans after Becoming a Son

Passage 2245 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Scaevola argues that if a contract is made with a paterfamilias who subsequently becomes a filiusfamilias, the Senatusconsultum Macedonianum should apply to the subsequent loan, as the obligation is only completed upon the actual payment of money.

[SCAEUOLA libro secundo quaestionum. ] §14.6.6.prContra etiam recte dicetur, si a patre familias stipulatus sit, credas postea filio familias facto, senatus potestatem exercendam, quia expleta est numeratione substantia obligationis.
[SCAEVOLA, Questions, Book 2] On the other hand, it will also be rightly said that, if one has stipulated with a head of a household and subsequently lends money to him after he has become a son under paternal power, the authority of the senate's decree must be enforced, because the substance of the obligation is completed by the paying out of the money.

Notes

  1. §14.6.6.prfilio familias facto — Dative complement of the verb credas (subjunctive present, generalizing second person, 'if you lend to'). It denotes lending to the person who, having been a paterfamilias, has subsequently 'become a filiusfamilias' (filio familias facto).
  2. §14.6.6.prsenatus — A simple genitive ('of the senate'), but in this context it clearly refers to the authority of the Senatusconsultum Macedonianum.
  3. §14.6.6.prexercendam — A gerundive (future passive participle) with esse omitted, forming an infinitive clause with the accusative subject potestatem. It functions as the indirect statement depending on the impersonal passive main verb dicetur ('it will be said that...').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §14.6.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:14.6.6.pr

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