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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §20.6.14.pr

Extinction of Pledge on Brought-In Goods by Accepting a Guarantor

Passage 3013 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Labeo opines that if a landlord accepts a guarantor from their tenant for the rent, the pledge on the tenant's brought-in property ceases to exist, as satisfaction is deemed to have been given.

[LABEO libro quinto posteriorum a Iauoleno epitomatorum. ] §20.6.14.prCum colono tibi conuenit, ut inuecta importata pignori essent, donec merces tibi soluta aut satisfactum esset: deinde mercedis nomine fideiussorem a colono accepisti.
[LABEO in the fifth book of his posthumous works epitomized by Iavolenus.] You agreed with your tenant that the property brought on and carried into the land should be held as a pledge, until the rent should be paid to you or satisfaction should be given. Afterwards, you accepted a guarantor from the tenant on account of the rent.
satisfactum tibi uideri existimo et ideo illata pignori esse desisse.
I am of the opinion that satisfaction should be deemed to have been given to you, and therefore that the things brought in have ceased to be held as a pledge.

Notes

  1. §20.6.14.prsatisfactum tibi uideri existimo et ideo illata pignori esse desisse — Two accusative-with-infinitive (AcI) clauses depend on the main verb 'existimo'. The first clause is 'satisfactum [esse] tibi uideri', where 'satisfactum' represents the impersonal passive infinitive 'satisfactum esse' with 'esse' omitted, serving as the subject of 'uideri' (to be deemed/seen). The second clause is 'illata pignori esse desisse', where the neuter plural accusative 'illata' (the things brought in) is the subject accusative, 'desisse' (perfect infinitive of 'desinere') is the infinitive verb, and 'pignori esse' (to be a pledge, dative of purpose) depends on 'desisse' as a complementary infinitive.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §20.6.14.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:20.6.14.pr

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