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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §20.1.19.pr

Indivisibility of Pledge and Release of Pledged Items

Passage 2932 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

States the indivisibility of pledge, whereby a creditor who has received multiple things in pledge is not obliged to release any single item until the debt is paid in full.

[ULPIANUS libro uicesimo primo ad edictum. ] §20.1.19.prQui pignori plures res accepit, non cogitur unam liberare nisi accepto uniuerso quantum debetur.
[ULPIANUS, in his twenty-first book on the Edict.] A person who has received several things in pledge is not compelled to release one of them unless the whole of what is owed has been received.

Notes

  1. 20.1.19.praccepto uniuerso quantum debetur — Meaning "unless the whole of what is owed has been received." accepto uniuerso is an ablative absolute, and quantum debetur is a relative clause ("the amount that is owed") modifying uniuerso (used substantively in the neuter singular). Combined with nisi, it expresses a negative condition.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §20.1.19.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:20.1.19.pr

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