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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §16.1.6.pr

Guarantees on a Mother's Mandate and Creditor's Lack of Knowledge

Passage 2352 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses whether guarantors acting on a mother's mandate for her absent son's defender are protected by the senatusconsultum, concluding that if the creditor was unaware of the mandate, the exception is barred by a replication of fraud.

[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo nono ad edictum. ] §16.1.6.prSi fideiussores pro defensore absentis filii ex mandato matris eius intercesserint, quaeritur, an etiam his senatus consulto subueniatur.
[ULPIAN, On the Edict, book 29] If guarantors have intervened on behalf of the defender of an absent son, acting on the mandate of his mother, it is asked whether they also are assisted by the senatusconsultum.
et ait Papinianus libro nono quaestionum exceptione eos usuros: nec multum facere, quod pro defensore fideiusserunt, cum contemplatione mandati matris interuenerunt.
And Papinian says in the ninth book of his Questions that they can use the exception; and that it makes no great difference that they became guarantors for the defender, since they intervened in contemplation of the mother's mandate.
plane, inquit, si qui accepit eos fideiussores, matrem eis mandasse ignorauit, exceptionem senatus consulti replicatione doli repellendam.
Clearly, he says, if the person who accepted them as guarantors was ignorant of the fact that the mother had mandated them, the exception of the senatusconsultum must be repelled by a replication of fraud.

Notes

  1. §16.1.6.prcum contemplatione — This is the preposition cum taking the ablative noun contemplatione ('in contemplation of'), rather than the conjunction cum. The verb interuenerunt is the indicative perfect, serving as the main verb of this clause (retaining direct speech style within indirect speech).
  2. §16.1.6.prnec multum facere — An accusative with infinitive construction under the indirect speech introduced by ait Papinianus. Here, facere is used intransitively to mean 'to matter' or 'to make a difference,' taking the quod-clause (quod ... fideiusserunt) as its subject.
  3. §16.1.6.prrepellendam — A gerundive of obligation with the ellipsis of esse, forming an accusative with infinitive (repellendam esse) within the indirect speech introduced by inquit. The noun exceptionem is the subject accusative, and replicatione is an ablative of means.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §16.1.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:16.1.6.pr

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