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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §16.1.28.pr-16.1.28.1

Intercession by Spouses and the Senatusconsultum

Passage 2374 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text determines the applicability of the senatusconsult restricting women's interposition in two cases: one where the husband acted as a guarantor for the wife Seia's own transaction, and another where the wife substantially mortgaged her property to pay her husband's debt.

[SCAEUOLA libro primo responsorum. ] §16.1.28.prSeia mancipia emit et mutuam pecuniam accepit sub fideiussore marito eamque soluit uenditori: postea maritus decedens non soluendo in fraudem creditoris cauit testamento se eam pecuniam uniuersam debere: quaeritur, an intercessisse mulier uideretur.
Seia bought slaves and received a loan with her husband as guarantor, and paid it to the seller. Afterwards, the husband, dying insolvent, provided in his will, in fraud of his creditor, that he owed the entirety of that money. The question arose whether the woman should be deemed to have interposed.
respondi secundum ea quae proponerentur non intercessisse.
I replied that, according to the facts presented, she had not interposed.
§16.1.28.1Fundum uxoris suae maritus obligauit Sempronio ob conductionem: mox mulier a Numerio sua fide mutuam pecuniam acceptam sub obligatione eiusdem fundi soluit statim Sempronio pro marito suo: quaesitum est, an aduersus senatus consultum obligata sit.
A husband mortgaged his wife's land to Sempronius on account of a lease. Soon after, the wife, under the obligation of the same land, paid to Sempronius immediately on behalf of her husband a loan received from Numerius on her own credit. The question was raised whether she was bound contrary to the senatusconsult.
respondi, si Numerius scisset eam intercedere, fore senatus consulto de quo quaereretur locum.
I replied that, if Numerius had known that she was interposing, there would be room for the senatusconsult in question.

Notes

  1. §16.1.28.prnon soluendo — soluendo is the dative of the gerund, originating from the idiomatic expression non soluendo esse (to be insolvent). Here it modifies the participle decedens, describing the state of the husband as 'dying insolvent.'
  2. §16.1.28.1fore senatus consulto de quo quaereretur locum — This is an accusative-with-infinitive construction subordinate to the main verb respondi. fore (the contracted form of futurum esse) is the future infinitive, whose subject accusative is locum. senatus consulto is a dative governed by locus, meaning 'there would be room (locus) for the senatusconsult.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §16.1.28.pr-16.1.28.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:16.1.28.pr-16.1.28.1

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