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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §20.4.8.pr

Priority of Municipality's Pledge Over Subsequent State Debt

Passage 2971 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states that if a public corporate body (res publica) secures a specific pledge, it must be preferred over the state treasury (fiscus) for subsequently incurred debts, just as private individuals would be.

[IDEM libro septimo disputationum. ] §20.4.8.prSi pignus specialiter res publica acceperit, dicendum est praeferri eam fisco debere, si postea fisco debitor obligatus est, quia et priuati praeferuntur.
[THE SAME, in his seventh book of disputations.] If a public corporate body has accepted a pledge specifically, it must be said that it ought to be preferred to the treasury, if the debtor subsequently became obligated to the treasury, because even private individuals are preferred.

Notes

  1. §20.4.8.pream — An accusative feminine singular pronoun referring back to the feminine noun res publica. It functions as the subject accusative of the infinitive clause praeferri eam fisco debere, meaning 'that it (the public body) ought to be preferred.'
  2. §20.4.8.prfisco — The dative singular of the masculine noun fiscus (treasury). It depends on the passive infinitive praeferri (to be preferred) to indicate the entity over which preference or priority is given ('to be preferred to the treasury').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §20.4.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:20.4.8.pr

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