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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §16.1.27.pr-16.1.27.2

Good-Faith Creditors and the Exception in Own Affairs

Passage 2373 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Papinian discusses the applicability of the exception of the Senatus Consultum Velleianum, addressing situations where a creditor contracted in good faith, where slaves relied on a woman's credit, and where a wife conducted her own business by delegating her debtor.

[PAPINIANUS libro tertio responsorum. ] §16.1.27.prBona fide personam mulieris in contrahendo secutus ob ea, quae inter uirum et uxorem accepta pecunia gesta sunt, exceptione senatus consulti non summouetur.
[PAPINIANUS, Opinions, Book 3.] A person who in contracting has in good faith relied on the credit of a woman is not barred by the exception of the senatusconsult on account of transactions that took place between husband and wife upon receipt of the money.
§16.1.27.1Cum serui ad negotiationem praepositi cum alio contrahentes personam mulieris ut idoneae sequuntur, exceptione senatus consulti dominum summouet: nec uidetur deterior causa domini per seruum fieri, sed nihil esse domino quaesitum, non magis, quam si litigiosum praedium seruus aut liberum hominem emerit.
When slaves appointed to a business, in contracting with another, rely on the credit of a woman as solvent, she bars their master by the exception of the senatusconsult; and it is not deemed that the position of the master is made worse by the slave, but rather that nothing was acquired for the master, no more than if the slave had bought litigious land or a free man.
§16.1.27.2Uxor debitricem suam uiro delegauit, ut uir creditori eius pecuniam solueret: si fidem suam pro ea quam delegauit apud uirum obligauerit, locum exceptio senatus consulti non habebit, quia mulier suum negotium gessit.
A wife delegated her female debtor to her husband so that the husband might pay money to her creditor. If she bound her own credit to her husband on behalf of the female debtor whom she delegated, the exception of the senatusconsult will have no place, because the woman conducted her own business.

Notes

  1. §16.1.27.prsecutus — The nominative masculine singular perfect participle of the deponent verb sequor (to rely upon), agreeing with the unexpressed subject of the main verb non summouetur (the creditor or contracting party). bona fide (in good faith) modifies this participle, describing the creditor's subjective state of reliance.
  2. §16.1.27.1summouet — An active third-person singular verb. Although there is no explicit subject in this clause, mulier (the woman), understood from personam mulieris in the preceding cum clause, functions as the subject. It means she bars the master (dominum) of the slaves by her exception (exceptione).
  3. §16.1.27.1nihil esse domino quaesitum — An accusative-with-infinitive (AcI) construction depending on uidetur, parallel to the nominative-with-infinitive clause deterior causa domini ... fieri. It expresses that 'nothing was acquired for the master.' domino is a dative of reference or agent.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §16.1.27.pr-16.1.27.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:16.1.27.pr-16.1.27.2

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