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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §19.2.53.pr

Surety Liability and Crop Pledges in Public Land Leases

Passage 2874 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Papinian explains that a person who became a surety for a tenant of public land leased by a contractor is not directly liable to the state, but the crops on the land remain subject to the same pledge.

[PAPINIANUS libro undecimo responsorum. ] §19.2.53.prQui fideiussor exstitit apud mancipem pro colono publicorum praediorum, quae manceps ei colono locauit, rei publicae non tenetur: sed fructus in eadem causa pignoris manent.
[PAPINIANUS, from the eleventh book of Opinions.] person who became a surety before a contractor for a tenant of public estates, which the contractor leased to that tenant, is not liable to the state; but the crops remain under the same condition of pledge.

Notes

  1. §19.2.53.prQui ... tenetur — The entire clause introduced by the relative pronoun Qui (Qui ... locauit), with the antecedent is omitted, serves as the subject of the main verb tenetur. rei publicae is a dative indicating the entity to whom the liability is owed under tenetur.
  2. §19.2.53.prin eadem causa pignoris — Meaning 'under the same condition of pledge'. It refers to the legal principle that although the guarantor's personal liability does not extend to the state, the crops (fructus) produced on the rented land continue to secure the rent as a tacit pledge (pignus tacitum).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §19.2.53.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:19.2.53.pr

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