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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §17.1.20.pr-17.1.20.1

Mandatary Neutrality in Profit or Loss and Absentee Suretyship

Passage 2460 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Specifies the principle that a mandatary should neither retain any benefit nor suffer any loss from a mandate, and that a guarantor for an absent person without a prior mandate has an action for business management instead of mandate.

[PAULUS libro undecimo ad Sabinum. ] §17.1.20.prEx mandato apud eum qui mandatum suscepit nihil remanere oportet, sicuti nec damnum pati debet, si exigere faeneratam pecuniam non potuit.
[PAULUS in his eleventh book on Sabinus.] By virtue of a mandate, nothing ought to remain with him who undertook the mandate, just as he ought not to suffer loss if he could not collect the money he lent at interest.
§17.1.20.1Fideiussori negotiorum gestorum est actio, si pro absente fideiusserit: nam mandati actio non potest competere, cum non antecesserit mandatum.
An action for business management lies for a guarantor if he has guaranteed on behalf of an absent person; for an action of mandate cannot lie, since no mandate preceded.

Notes

  1. §17.1.20.prEx mandato — Ex mandato means "by virtue of a mandate" or "as a consequence of a mandate," indicating the ground for the rule that all benefits acquired by the mandatary in executing the mandate must be transferred to the mandator and nothing should remain with him (nihil remanere oportet).
  2. §17.1.20.1Fideiussori negotiorum gestorum est actio — A dative of possession construction with the dative Fideiussori and est actio. Since guaranteeing on behalf of an absent person (absens) lacks the prior authorization (mandatum) of the principal, it is classified as business management (negotiorum gestio) rather than mandate, granting the guarantor the (contrary) action for business management.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §17.1.20.pr-17.1.20.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:17.1.20.pr-17.1.20.1

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