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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.5.17.pr

Release of Judgment Debt by Acceptilatio After Novation

Passage 6232 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that if a judgment debt is brought into a stipulation for novation, and that stipulation is then released by acceptilatio for a donation, the discharge of the debt takes effect.

[IDEM libro quinquagensimo octauo ad edictum. ] §39.5.17.prSi in stipulatum iudicatum nouationis causa deductum sit et stipulatio donationis causa accepto lata, dicendum est locum liberationem habere.
[THE SAME, in the fifty-eighth book on the Edict.] If a judgment debt has been brought into a stipulation for the purpose of novation, and the stipulation has been released by acceptilatio for the purpose of a donation, it must be said that the discharge takes effect.

Notes

  1. §39.5.17.praccepto lata — The auxiliary verb sit is omitted from the perfect passive subjunctive accepto lata sit. It is the passive participle of the legal idiom accepto ferre, meaning to release a debt by formal acceptilatio.
  2. §39.5.17.prlocum liberationem habere — An accusative with infinitive construction dependent on dicendum est. The subject accusative of the infinitive habere is liberationem, and its object is locum. The idiom locum habere means 'to have place' or 'to take effect'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.5.17.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.5.17.pr

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