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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §26.7.29.pr

Injustice of Demanding Interest After Long Delay in Claiming Trust Property

Passage 3864 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Marcellus points out that it is highly inequitable for someone who only thinks of demanding the return of the trust property after twenty years or more to also demand interest, especially from the tutor's heir.

[MARCELLUS libro octauo digestorum. ] §26.7.29.prmaximeque heredem tutoris: nam periniquum est eum, cui forte post uiginti annos uel amplius in mentem uenit tutelam reposcere, etiam usuras postulare.
[MARCELLUS, in his eighth book of the Digests.] And this is especially true of the heir of the tutor; for it is extremely inequitable that a person who, perhaps after twenty years or more, happens to think of demanding the restoration of the tutelage property, should also demand interest.

Notes

  1. §26.7.29.prmaximeque heredem tutoris — The accusative `heredem` is in apposition to or parallel with `eum` in the preceding sentence (§26.7.28.1: `iustius mihi uidetur eum ... ad praestationem usurarum non compelli`), indicating an ellipsis where the same exemption from being compelled to pay interest applies especially to the tutor's heir (heredem tutoris).
  2. §26.7.29.preum ... etiam usuras postulare — An accusative with infinitive (A.c.I.) construction acting as the subject of the impersonal expression `periniquum est` (it is extremely unfair). Here, `eum` (which is modified by the relative clause `cui ...`) is the subject accusative of the infinitive `postulare`.
  3. §26.7.29.prcui ... in mentem uenit tutelam reposcere — The idiom `in mentem uenire` (to come to mind, to occur to someone) takes the dative of the person (`cui`) and is here accompanied by the infinitive `reposcere` (to demand back) acting as its subject.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §26.7.29.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:26.7.29.pr

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