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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §2.15.5.pr

Survival of Uncontemplated Actions under Stipulation

Passage 433 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Papinian explains that when an Aquilian stipulation is entered into by consent, any lawsuits not contemplated by the parties remain unaffected, as the jurists' interpretation prevents an act of liberality from turning into a trap.

[PAPINIANUS libro primo definitionum. ] §2.15.5.prCum Aquiliana stipulatio interponitur, quae ex consensu redditur, lites, de quibus non est cogitatum, in suo statu retinentur.
[PAPINIAN in the first book of definitions.] When an Aquilian stipulation is entered into, which is executed by consent, lawsuits, concerning which there was no contemplation, are retained in their own status.
liberalitatem enim captiosam interpretatio prudentium fregit.
For the interpretation of the jurists has broken a deceptive liberality.

Notes

  1. §2.15.5.prde quibus non est cogitatum — A relative clause containing the impersonal passive perfect cogitatum est (from cogitare, to think/contemplate). Literally, "concerning which it was not thought," modifying the antecedent lites to refer to "lawsuits that were not contemplated" at the time of the agreement.
  2. §2.15.5.prliberalitatem enim captiosam — The object liberalitatem captiosam ("deceptive liberality") is fronted before the subject interpretatio and the verb fregit for emphasis. This hyperbaton stresses how the jurists' interpretation prevented an act of goodwill (the liberality of settlement) from becoming a trap (captiosam) for the parties by inadvertently extinguishing unthought-of claims.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §2.15.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.15.5.pr

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