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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §29.2.89.pr

Relief for Guarantors upon Abstention by a Ward

Passage 4492 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses that if a ward abstains from an inheritance, relief should also be granted to the guarantors they provided if those guarantors are sued under an inherited contract.

[SCAEUOLA libro tertio decimo quaestionum. ] §29.2.89.prSi pupillus se hereditate abstineat, succurrendum est et fideiussoribus ab eo datis, si ex hereditario contractu conuenirentur.
[SCAEUOLA, from the thirteenth book of Questions.] If a ward abstains from the inheritance, relief must also be granted to the guarantors provided by him, if they should be sued under a contract concerning the inheritance.

Notes

  1. §29.2.89.prsuccurrendum est — An impersonal passive construction using the gerundive, expressing necessity or obligation ('relief must be granted'). The object of relief is expressed in the dative (fideiussoribus).
  2. §29.2.89.prconuenirentur — The third-person plural imperfect subjunctive passive of the verb convenire (used here in the legal sense of 'to be sued' or 'to be summoned'). While the main clause is in the present tense (succurrendum est), the use of the imperfect subjunctive in the conditional clause si... conuenirentur expresses a hypothetical situation of being sued.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §29.2.89.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:29.2.89.pr

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