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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §22.1.20.pr

Effect of Unlawful Interest Mixed with Principal

Passage 3180 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The text establishes the legal rule that when interest is unlawfully mixed with a principal sum, only the interest itself is void, while the principal remains valid.

[PAULUS libro duodecimo ad Sabinum. ] §22.1.20.prUsuras illicitae sorti mixtas ipsas tantum non deberi constat, ceterum sortem non uitiare.
[PAULUS, from his twelfth book on Sabinus.] It is well established that only the interest itself, which is mixed with an unlawful principal, is not due, but otherwise it does not vitiate the principal.

Notes

  1. 22.1.20.prsortem non uitiare — An accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction governed by the impersonal verb `constat`. The preceding `usuras` acts as the common subject accusative for both `non deberi` and `non uitiare`, while `sortem` (accusative singular) is the direct object of the active infinitive `uitiare`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §22.1.20.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:22.1.20.pr

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