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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §16.2.1.pr

Definition of Set-Off by Modestinus

Passage 2379 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The jurist Modestinus provides the classic definition of set-off (compensatio) as the mutual balancing of debt and credit.

[MODESTINUS libro sexto pandectarum. ] §16.2.1.prCompensatio est debiti et crediti inter se contributio.
[MODESTINUS, Pandects, Book VI.] is the mutual contribution of debt and credit.

Notes

  1. §16.2.1.prdebiti et crediti — Objective genitives depending on the noun 'contributio', meaning the balancing 'of' debt and credit.
  2. §16.2.1.printer se — A prepositional phrase meaning 'reciprocally' or 'mutually', indicating that the debt and credit exist between the same two parties.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §16.2.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:16.2.1.pr

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