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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.3.1.pr

Privilege of Creditors Lending for Building Restoration

Passage 6925 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian states that a creditor who has lent money for the restoration of buildings is granted a privilege to recover the debt.

[ULPIANUS libro septimo decimo ad edictum. ] §42.3.1.prCreditori, qui ob restitutionem aedificiorum crediderit, priuilegium exigendi datur.
[ULPIAN in the seventeenth book on the Edict.] A privilege of recovering the debt is given to a creditor who has lent money for the restoration of buildings.

Notes

  1. §42.3.1.prcrediderit — The verb credo is used here in a legal sense meaning 'to lend' or 'to advance credit'. It refers to the action of the antecedent creditori via the relative pronoun qui, in the perfect subjunctive (or future perfect indicative) representing a conditional or hypothetical circumstance.
  2. §42.3.1.prpriuilegium exigendi — exigendi is the genitive of the gerund from the verb exigo (to demand or recover a debt). It modifies the noun priuilegium (privilege or priority), referring to the preferential right to recover the debt ahead of other creditors in insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.3.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.3.1.pr

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