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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §2.8.11.pr

Liability of Sureties when Security Precedes Mandate

Passage 313 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpianus cites the opinion of Iulianus, stating that even if a party accepted security with the intention of claiming land prior to receiving a mandate, and subsequently brought the action based on that mandate, the sureties remain liable.

[ULPIANUS libro septuagensimo quinto ad edictum. ] §2.8.11.prIulianus ait, si antequam mandarem tibi ut fundum peteres, satis acceperis petiturus fundum et postea mandatu meo agere institueris, fideiussores teneri.
[ULPIANUS, in the seventy-fifth book on the Edict.] Iulianus says that if, before I mandated you to claim the land, you had accepted security, intending to claim the land, and afterwards by my mandate you began to bring the action, the sureties are bound.

Notes

  1. §2.8.11.prpetiturus fundum — The future active participle `petiturus` expresses intention or purpose ('intending to claim the land'). It is in the nominative case, agreeing with the subject of the conditional clause (second-person singular, the subject of `acceperis`).
  2. §2.8.11.prfideiussores teneri — This is an accusative and infinitive construction (A.C.I.) governed by the main verb `ait` ('Iulianus says'), functioning as the conclusion of the conditional clause (`si...`) to state that 'the sureties are bound'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §2.8.11.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.8.11.pr

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