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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §22.2.7.pr

Agreement for Interest in Maritime Loans without Stipulation

Passage 3216 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that in certain contracts, such as maritime loans, the recovery of the principal along with interest is permitted on the condition that the ship returns safely, even without a formal stipulation.

[IDEM libro tertio ad edictum. ] §22.2.7.prIn quibusdam contractibus etiam usurae debentur quemadmodum per stipulationem.
[THE SAME, in the third book on the Edict.] In certain contracts, interest is due just as it is through a stipulation.
nam si dedero decem traiecticia, ut salua naue sortem cum certis usuris recipiam, dicendum est posse me sortem cum usuris recipere.
For if I have given ten as a maritime loan, on the condition that, if the ship is safe, I shall receive back the principal with a certain interest, it must be said that I can recover the principal with the interest.

Notes

  1. §22.2.7.prdecem traiecticia — decem (ten) is a numeral, and traiecticia is the neuter plural accusative form of the adjective traiecticius (relating to maritime transport). Here, assuming pecunia traiecticia (maritime loan), it functions as a nominal expression meaning 'ten [units] as a maritime loan' and serves as the direct object of the verb dedero.
  2. §22.2.7.prsalua naue — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun nauis (ship) and the adjective saluus (safe), expressing the condition 'if the ship is safe.'
  3. §22.2.7.prdicendum est posse me — The accusative-with-infinitive construction posse me [recipere] functions as the subject clause of the impersonal gerundive construction dicendum est ('it must be said'). me is the subject accusative of the infinitive posse.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §22.2.7.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:22.2.7.pr

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