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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §4.4.34.pr-4.4.34.1

Loans to Minor Sons and Restitution in Arbitration

Passage 736 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This chunk defines the scope of liability for repayment when a minor under twenty-five lends money to another minor filius familias, and the right to reinstatement for minors who entered into arbitration and stipulations with their tutor's authorization.

[PAULUS libro primo sententiarum. ] §4.4.34.prSi minor uiginti quinque annis filio familias minori pecuniam credidit, melior est causa consumentis, nisi locupletior ex hoc inueniatur litis contestatae tempore is qui accepit.
[PAULUS, in the first book of Opinions.] If a minor under twenty-five years of age has lent money to a minor who is a filius familias, the position of the consumer is better, unless he who received it is found to be enriched by this at the time of joinder of issue.
§4.4.34.1Minores si in iudicem compromiserunt et tutore auctore stipulati sunt, integri restitutionem aduersus talem obligationem iure desiderant.
If minors have submitted to arbitration and entered into a stipulation with the authorization of their tutor, they rightly request reinstatement against such an obligation.

Notes

  1. §4.4.34.prconsumentis — A genitive referring to the person who consumed the loaned money (the borrower, who is a filius familias). Under the Senatusconsultum Macedonianum, loans of money to a filius familias are generally unenforceable, and even if the lender is a minor, the protection of the consumer prevails unless there is actual enrichment.
  2. §4.4.34.1integri restitutionem — Corresponds to in integrum restitutio (reinstatement to the original condition). It refers to the legal remedy by which a minor is relieved from the obligations of a disadvantageous legal act (here, a stipulation entered into with the authorization of a tutor).
  3. §4.4.34.1tutore auctore — An ablative absolute consisting of the ablative of tutor and auctor. It expresses the circumstance where the tutor provides their authority (auctoritas), meaning "with the authorization of the tutor".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §4.4.34.pr-4.4.34.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.4.34.pr-4.4.34.1

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