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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §16.1.11.pr

Relending Borrowed Funds and the Senatusconsultum's Inapplicability

Passage 2357 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paul states that if a woman receives money ostensibly for her own use but intending to lend it to someone else, the Senatus Consultum Velleianum does not apply, since counter-parties cannot know her subjective intentions.

[PAULUS libro trigensimo ad edictum. ] §16.1.11.prSi mulier tamquam in usus suos pecuniam acceperit alii creditura, non est locus senatus consulto: alioquin nemo cum feminis contrahet, quia ignorari potest, quid acturae sint.
[PAULUS, On the Edict, book 30] If a woman has received money as if for her own use, intending to lend it to another, there is no room for the senatusconsultum; otherwise, no one will contract with women, because it cannot be known what they are going to do.

Notes

  1. §16.1.11.pralii creditura — The future active participle in the nominative singular feminine, modifying the subject mulier, expressing her subjective intention (intending to lend to another).
  2. §16.1.11.prsenatus consulto — Dative case dependent on locus (room, opportunity), indicating the purpose or scope of application. It refers to the Senatus consultum Velleianum, which invalidated intercession by women on behalf of others.
  3. §16.1.11.prquid acturae sint — An indirect question clause functioning as the logical subject of the impersonal passive construction ignorari potest (it cannot be known). The future participle in the subjunctive periphrasis is plural feminine (acturae), agreeing with the generalized plural feminis in the preceding clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §16.1.11.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:16.1.11.pr

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