Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §22.2.3.pr

Transfer of Risk to the Creditor from the Departure Date

Passage 3212 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It stipulates that the risk in maritime money transfers to the creditor from the scheduled day of the ship's departure.

[MODESTINUS libro quarto regularum. ] §22.2.3.prIn nautica pecunia ex eo die periculum spectat creditorem, ex quo nauem nauigare conueniat.

[MODESTINUS, in the fourth book of Rules.] In maritime money, the risk falls upon the creditor from that day on which it is agreed that the ship should sail.

Notes

§22.2.3.prspectat — The transitive verb spectare here takes the accusative creditorem, meaning that the risk (periculum) "falls upon" or "concerns" the creditor (i.e., is borne by the creditor).
§22.2.3.prconueniat — The subjunctive present of the impersonal verb convenit (it is agreed, it is fit). The subjunctive is used in the relative clause (ex quo...) to express a contractual agreement or schedule ('that the ship should sail') rather than a mere historical fact. The accusative and infinitive clause nauem nauigare functions as the subject of conueniat.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §22.2.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:22.2.3.pr

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