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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.3.2.pr

Subrogation of Lenders Who Pay Off Prior Creditors

Passage 6926 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

In personal actions, a subsequent creditor who provides money to pay off prior creditors succeeds to the position and priority of those prior creditors.

[IDEM libro uicensimo primo ad edictum. ] §42.3.2.prIn personalibus actionibus qui postea quidem contraxerunt, uerum ut pecunia eorum ad priores creditores perueniat, in locum eorum succedunt.
[THE SAME in the twenty-first book on the Edict.] In personal actions, those who indeed contracted later, but on the condition that their money should reach the prior creditors, succeed to their place.

Notes

  1. §42.3.2.prqui postea quidem contraxerunt — A relative clause with an omitted antecedent (ei), functioning as the subject of the main verb succedunt. The correlative structure quidem ... uerum ... introduces a concessive contrast ('who indeed contracted later, but...').
  2. §42.3.2.pruerum ut pecunia eorum ad priores creditores perueniat — The ut clause with the subjunctive present perueniat expresses the purpose or qualifying condition under which the subsequent contract was made. The pronoun eorum in pecunia eorum refers to the subsequent creditors (the subject of qui), whereas eorum in the phrase in locum eorum refers to the prior creditors (priores creditores).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.3.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.3.2.pr

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