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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §39.5.23.pr-39.5.23.1

Remission of Future Interest and Capacity of the Insane

Passage 6238 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Modestinus responds that a creditor can remit or reduce future interest by agreement, and that a person of unsound mind is incapable of making a gift.

[IDEM libro quinto decimo responsorum. ] §39.5.23.prModestinus respondit creditorem futuri temporis usuras et remittere et minuere pacto posse nec in ea donatione ex summa quantitatis aliquid uitii incurrere.
[THE SAME, in the fifteenth book of Responses.] Modestinus responded that a creditor can, by agreement, both remit and reduce interest of future time, and that no defect is incurred in that gift from the total amount.
§39.5.23.1Modestinus respondit mente captum donare non posse.
Modestinus responded that a person deprived of his mind cannot make a gift.

Notes

  1. §39.5.23.praliquid uitii — A combination of the neuter singular accusative pronoun aliquid (the subject of the infinitive incurrere) and the partitive genitive uitii, meaning 'any defect' or 'some flaw'.
  2. §39.5.23.1mente captum — The combination of the participle captus (seized) and the ablative mente (in mind), meaning 'deprived of reason' or 'insane'. It functions as the subject accusative of the infinitive phrase donare non posse.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §39.5.23.pr-39.5.23.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:39.5.23.pr-39.5.23.1

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