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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §16.2.11.pr

Remission of Interest in Set-Off of Non-Interest Debts

Passage 2389 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The decree of the Divine Severus stating that when one party owes interest-free money and the other owes interest-bearing money, no interest is payable on the overlapping amount.

[IDEM libro trigensimo secundo ad edictum. ] §16.2.11.prCum alter alteri pecuniam sine usuris, alter usurariam debet, constitutum est a diuo Seuero concurrentis apud utrumque quantitatis usuras non esse praestandas.
[THE SAME, On the Edict, Book XXXII.] When one party owes money without interest to another, and the other owes interest-bearing money to him, it was decreed by the Divine Severus that interest on the amount that is common to both should not be paid.

Notes

  1. §16.2.11.prconcurrentis apud utrumque quantitatis — The genitive present participle `concurrentis` ("running together", "overlapping") modifies `quantitatis`, and the entire phrase functions as a genitive modifying `usuras`. It refers to the interest on the portion of the debt that is mutually offset.
  2. §16.2.11.prusurariam — The noun `pecuniam` (money) from the preceding clause is understood to be supplied, meaning "interest-bearing (money)".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §16.2.11.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:16.2.11.pr

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