[ULPIANUS libro trigensimo primo ad edictum. ] §17.1.12.10Dedi tibi pecuniam, ut creditori meo exsoluas: non fecisti: praestabis mihi usuras, quo casu et a me creditor pecuniam debitam cum usuris recepturus sit: et ita imperator Seuerus Hadriano Demonstrati rescripsit.
I gave you money to pay my creditor; you did not do so. You must pay me interest, in which case the creditor is also to receive the money owed from me with interest. And the Emperor Severus wrote back to Adrianus Demonstratus to this effect.
§17.1.12.11Si adulescens luxuriosus mandet tibi, ut pro meretrice fideiubeas, idque tu sciens mandatum susceperis, non habebis mandati actionem, quia simile est, quasi perdituro pecuniam sciens credideris.
If a profligate young man commissions you to become a guarantor for a courtesan, and you, knowing this, undertake the mandate, you will not have the contrary action on mandate, because it is similar to when you knowingly lend money to someone who is bound to waste it.
sed et si ulterius directo mandauerit tibi, ut meretrici pecuniam credas, non obligabitur mandati, quasi aduersus bonam fidem mandatum sit.
Moreover, even if he directly commissions you to lend money to a courtesan, he will not be bound by the mandate, on the ground that the mandate is, as it were, contrary to good faith.
§17.1.12.12Cum quidam talem epistulam scripsisset amico suo: 'rogo te, commendatum habeas Sextilium Crescentem amicum meum', non obligabitur mandati, quia commendandi magis hominis quam mandandi causa scripta est.
When someone had written such a letter to his friend: "I request you to hold my friend Sextilius Crescens as recommended to you," he will not be bound by the mandate, because it was written for the sake of recommending a person rather than of commissioning.
§17.1.12.13Si quis mandauerit filio familias credendam pecuniam non contra senatus consultum accipienti, sed ex ea causa, ex qua de peculio uel de in rem uerso uel quod iussu pater teneretur, erit licitum mandatum.
If someone commissions money to be lent to a son-in-power who does not receive it contrary to the senate's decree, but on such a ground that the father would be held liable either in respect of the peculium, or on account of what has been turned to his profit, or because of his order, the mandate will be lawful.
hoc amplius dico, si, cum dubitarem, utrum contra senatus consultum acciperet an non nec essem daturus contra senatus consultum accipienti, intercesserit qui diceret non accipere contra senatus consultum, et 'periculo meo crede', dicat, 'bene credis': arbitror locum esse mandato et mandati eum teneri.
I say further, if, when I was in doubt whether he was receiving contrary to the senate's decree or not, and was not about to lend to one receiving contrary to the senate's decree, someone intervened who said that he was not receiving contrary to the senate's decree, and said: "Lend at my risk, you lend safely," I think that there is room for a mandate, and that he is bound by the mandate.
§17.1.12.14Si post creditam pecuniam mandauero creditori credendam, nullum esse mandatum rectissime Papinianus ait.
Papinian says most correctly that if, after money has been lent, I commission the creditor to lend it, there is no mandate.
plane si, ut exspectares nec urgueres debitorem ad solutionem, mandauero tibi, ut ei des interuallum, periculoque meo pecuniam fore dicam, uerum puto omne nominis periculum debere ad mandatorem pertinere.
Clearly, if, so that you might wait and not press the debtor for payment, I commission you to give him an extension of time, and say that the money will be at my risk, I think it true that all risk of the debt ought to belong to the mandator.
§17.1.12.15Idem ait, si tutor mandet suscipi uel probari nomen quod fecerat, teneri eum mandati, scilicet quondam pupillo suo uel curatori eius.
The same writer says that if a tutor commissions that a debt which he had contracted be undertaken or approved, he is bound by the mandate, namely to his former pupil or to the pupil's curator.
§17.1.12.16Si mandauero exigendam pecuniam, deinde uoluntatem mutauero, an sit mandati actio uel mihi uel heredi meo? et ait Marcellus cessare mandati actionem, quia extinctum est mandatum finita uoluntate.
If I commission money to be collected, and then change my mind, is there an action on mandate either for me or for my heir? And Marcellus says that the action on mandate does not lie, because the mandate was extinguished when the intention ceased.
quod si mandaueris exigendam, deinde prohibuisti, exactamque recepisti, debitor liberabitur.
But if you commission it to be collected, and then forbid it, and yet you receive what was collected, the debtor will be discharged.
§17.1.12.17Idem Marcellus scribit, si, ut post mortem sibi monumentum fieret, quis mandauit, heres eius poterit mandati agere.
The same Marcellus writes that if someone commissioned that a monument be erected for him after his death, his heir will be able to bring the action on mandate.
illum uero qui mandatum suscepit, si sua pecunia fecit, puto agere mandati, si non ita ei mandatum est, ut sua pecunia faceret monumentum.
On the other hand, as for the person who undertook the mandate, if he erected it with his own money, I think he can bring the contrary action on mandate, unless he was commissioned to erect the monument with his own money.
potuit enim agere etiam cum eo qui mandauit, ut sibi pecuniam daret ad faciendum, maxime si iam quaedam ad faciendum parauit.
For he could have sued even the person who commissioned him, so that money might be given to him for the construction, especially if he has already prepared certain things for the construction.