Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §20.1.14.pr-20.1.14.1

Pursuit of Pledges Before Due Date and Natural Obligations

Passage 2927 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses whether a pledge can be pursued before the payment day, arguing it should be allowed as it is to the creditor's interest, and states that a pledge continues under a natural obligation.

[ULPIANUS libro septuagesimo tertio ad edictum. ] §20.1.14.prQuaesitum est, si nondum dies pensionis uenit, an et medio tempore persequi pignora permittendum sit.

[ULPIAN, in his seventy-third book on the Edict.]\n\nIt has been asked whether, if the day of payment has not yet come, it should be permitted to pursue the pledge even in the intermediate time.

et puto dandam pignoris persecutionem, quia interest mea: et ita Celsus scribit. §20.1.14.1Ex quibus casibus naturalis obligatio consistit, pignus perseuerare constitit.

And I think that the pursuit of the pledge should be granted, because it is to my interest; and so Celsus writes.\n\nIn those cases from which a natural obligation arises, it is established that the pledge continues.

Notes

§20.1.14.printerest mea — The impersonal verb interest (it is of importance, it concerns) takes the feminine ablative singular of the possessive pronoun (mea) instead of the genitive (mei) to express the person concerned ("it is to my interest").
§20.1.14.1Ex quibus casibus naturalis obligatio consistit — A relative connection where the noun casibus (antecedent) is incorporated into the relative clause. Logically, it corresponds to "ex iis casibus, in quibus naturalis obligatio consistit" (from those cases in which a natural obligation arises).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §20.1.14.pr-20.1.14.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:20.1.14.pr-20.1.14.1

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