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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.1.13.pr-39.1.13.2

Notice of New Work by Agents and Protection of Absent Principals

Passage 6111 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section defines the legal effects and limits of a representative's notice of new work, and the praetor's duty to protect an absent principal when an unauthorized representative intervenes in a waiver.

[IULIANUS libro quadragensimo primo digestorum. ] §39.1.13.prCum procurator opus nouum nuntiat et satisdat rem ratam dominum habiturum et remissio in domini personam confertur: §39.1.13.1Si dominus opus nouum nuntiauerit intra diem, quae stipulatione ex operis noui nuntiatione interposita comprehensa esset, committitur stipulatio: si praeterita ea die dominus nuntiaret, non committitur.
[JULIAN, Digest, book forty-one.] When a representative gives notice of a new work and provides security that the principal will ratify the matter, and the waiver is granted to the person of the principal: If the principal should give notice of a new work within the period which was included in the stipulation entered into on the basis of the notice of a new work, the stipulation is forfeited; if the principal should give notice after that period has elapsed, it is not forfeited.
nam et ipsi domino, cum semel nuntiauerit, non permittitur iterum nuntiare, quamdiu stipulatio ex operis noui nuntiatione teneret.
For even the principal himself, once he has given notice, is not permitted to give notice a second time as long as the stipulation arising from the notice of a new work remains binding.
§39.1.13.2Si in remissione a parte eius, qui opus nouum nuntiauerat, procurator interueniat, id agere praetorem oportet, ne falsus procurator absenti noceat, cum sit indignum quolibet interueniente beneficium praetoris amitti.
If, in the matter of the waiver on the part of the person who had given notice of a new work, a representative should intervene, the praetor ought to see to it that an unauthorized representative does not prejudice the absent principal, since it is unjust that a benefit of the praetor should be lost through the intervention of just anyone.

Notes

  1. 39.1.13.prrem ratam dominum habiturum — An accusative with infinitive clause acting as the object of satisdat, with the auxiliary esse omitted. The phrase rem ratam habere is a legal idiom meaning 'for the principal to ratify (the acts of the representative)'.
  2. 39.1.13.1intra diem, quae — Since the relative pronoun quae is feminine singular, the antecedent diem is used in the feminine gender, indicating a specific period or deadline rather than a generic day (which is usually masculine). Here it refers to the fixed period covered by the stipulation.
  3. 39.1.13.2id agere praetorem oportet, ne — Within the accusative with infinitive clause acting as the subject of the impersonal verb oportet, the idiom id agere ut/ne (to see to it that / to make it one's aim that) is used, where id anticipates the subsequent ne clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.1.13.pr-39.1.13.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.1.13.pr-39.1.13.2

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