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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §17.1.40.pr

Denial of Actions for a Surety Acting Against Principal Objection

Passage 2480 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus states that if someone acts as surety for a person who is present and objecting, neither an action on mandate nor one of business management arises, rejecting the view of some who support granting an analogous action.

[PAULUS libro nono ad edictum. ] §17.1.40.prSi pro te praesente et uetante fideiusserim, nec mandati actio nec negotiorum gestorum est: sed quidam utilem putant dari oportere: quibus non consentio, secundum quod et Pomponio uidetur.
[PAULUS, On the Edict, Book IX.] If I should act as surety for you when you are present and forbidding it, there is neither an action on mandate nor one for business management; but some think that an analogous action ought to be granted; I do not agree with them, which is also the view held by Pomponius.

Notes

  1. §17.1.40.prpro te praesente et uetante — The present participles praesente and uetante agree with the pronoun te, which is governed by the preposition pro requiring the ablative case, meaning 'for you who are present and forbidding [it]'.
  2. §17.1.40.prutilem — Feminine accusative singular adjective. The noun actio ('action') is understood, referring to actio utilis (an analogous action). It functions as the subject accusative of the infinitive clause dari oportere ('ought to be granted').
  3. §17.1.40.prquibus non consentio — A connecting relative clause where quibus refers back to the preceding quidam ('some'). The dative plural is used because the verb consentio ('I agree') governs the dative case.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §17.1.40.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:17.1.40.pr

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