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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §34.3.13.pr

Bequests involving debtors with a permanent defense

Passage 5213 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is argued that while a creditor's bequest of a debt to a debtor with a permanent defense is void, a similar bequest by the debtor to the creditor must be understood as a waiver of that defense.

[IDEM libro octagesimo primo digestorum. ] §34.3.13.prSi creditor debitori, qui se exceptione perpetua tueri poterat, legauerit quod sibi deberet, nullius momenti legatum erit.
[The same, in the eighty-first book of the Digests.] If a creditor should bequeath what was owed to him to a debtor who could defend himself by a permanent exception, the legacy will be of no effect.
at si idem debitor creditori legauerit, intellegendum erit exceptionem eum remitti creditori uoluisse.
But if the same debtor should bequeath to the creditor, it must be understood that he wished the exception to be waived to the creditor.

Notes

  1. §34.3.13.prnullius momenti — Genitive of quality/value, functioning predicatively with the subject legatum to mean "of no effect/moment."
  2. §34.3.13.prexceptionem eum remitti creditori uoluisse — A nested accusative and infinitive (AcI) construction. The subject of the AcI clause that functions as the subject of the impersonal intellegendum erit is eum (= debitor) with the infinitive uoluisse, which in turn takes another AcI clause, exceptionem remitti creditori ("that the exception be released to the creditor"), as its object.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §34.3.13.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:34.3.13.pr

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