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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §16.2.19.pr

Payment to a Public Slave and Set-Off against Peculium

Passage 2397 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is ruled that if a debtor pays public money to a public slave without the consent of the proper payees, the original obligation remains, but the debtor is granted a set-off up to the limit of the slave's peculium.

[IDEM libro undecimo responsorum. ] §16.2.19.prDebitor pecuniam publicam seruo publico citra uoluntatem eorum soluit, quibus debitum recte solui potuit: obligatio pristina manebit, sed dabitur ei compensatio peculii fini, quod seruus publicus habebit.
[THE SAME, Responsa, Book XI.] A debtor paid public money to a public slave without the consent of those to whom the debt could have been properly paid: the original obligation will remain, but he will be allowed a set-off to the limit of the peculium which the public slave shall have.

Notes

  1. §16.2.19.prpeculii fini — fini is the ablative of the third-declension noun finis (with the ending -i, equivalent to fine), functioning as an ablative of limitation meaning 'to the limit of the peculium' when combined with the genitive peculii.
  2. §16.2.19.preorum, quibus — The demonstrative pronoun eorum (genitive plural), which is the antecedent of the relative pronoun quibus (dative plural), functions as the genitive complement of the prepositional phrase citra uoluntatem.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §16.2.19.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:16.2.19.pr

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