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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.1.8.pr

Patron Guardian's Duty of Good Faith and Revocation of Fraud

Passage 3736 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section addresses the duty of good faith of a patron acting as a guardian for his freedman, and the revocability of acts done to defraud creditors even by a pupil freedman.

[IDEM libro primo opinionum. ] §26.1.8.prPatronus quoque tutor liberti sui fidem exhibere debet, et si qua in fraudem debitorum quamuis pupilli liberti gesta sunt, reuocari ius publicum permittit.
[THE SAME, Opinions, Book 1.] A patron also, as the guardian of his freedman, must exhibit good faith; and if any acts have been done to defraud creditors, even though of a pupil freedman, public law permits them to be revoked.

Notes

  1. §26.1.8.prdebitorum — Although the manuscripts read debitorum ("of the debtors"), in the legal context of fraudulent transactions (in fraudem + genitive), it is commonly understood either as a scribal error for creditorum ("of the creditors") or as implying "fraud [against creditors] committed by the debtors." It is translated here as "to defraud creditors" to suit the legal meaning.
  2. §26.1.8.prquamuis — The conjunction quamuis directly modifies the noun phrase pupilli liberti to express concession ("even though of a pupil freedman"), functioning as a concessive qualification to the verb gesta sunt.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.1.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.1.8.pr

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