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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.5.24.pr-42.5.24.3

Privileges of Restoration Lenders and Bank Depositors

Passage 6973 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses the loss of privilege when an unborn child's curator is appointed but no birth occurs, the privileges of lenders for building restoration, the priority of depositors in a banker's bankruptcy, and the priority when funds reach privileged creditors.

[ULPIANUS libro sexagesimo tertio ad edictum. ] §42.5.24.prSi uentri curator datus sit nec partus editus, priuilegium cessabit.
[ULPIAN, on the Edict, book 63] If a curator has been appointed for an unborn child and no offspring has been born, the privilege will cease.
§42.5.24.1Diuus Marcus ita edixit: 'Creditor, qui ob restitutionem aedificiorum crediderit, in pecunia, quae credita erit, priuilegium exigendi habebit'. quod ad eum quoque pertinet, qui redemptori domino mandante pecuniam subministrauit.
The deified Marcus issued this edict: 'A creditor who has lent money for the restoration of buildings shall have a privilege of recovery regarding the money which was lent.' This also applies to one who, at the order of the owner, supplied money to the contractor.
§42.5.24.2In bonis mensularii uendundis post priuilegia potiorem eorum causam esse placuit, qui pecunias apud mensam fidem publicam secuti deposuerunt.
In selling the property of a banker, it was approved that, after the privileges, the position of those who deposited money at the bank, having relied on public credit, is more preferred.
sed enim qui depositis nummis usuras a mensulariis acceperunt a ceteris creditoribus non separantur, et merito: aliud est enim credere, aliud deponere.
However, those who, having deposited money, received interest from the bankers are not distinguished from the other creditors, and rightly so: for lending is one thing, depositing is another.
si tamen nummi exstent, uindicari eos posse puto a depositariis et futurum eum qui uindicat ante priuilegia.
If, however, the coins exist, I think they can be validated by the depositors, and that the person who validates will come before the privileges.
§42.5.24.3Eorum ratio prior est creditorum, quorum pecunia ad creditores priuilegiarios peruenit.
The standing of those creditors is prior, whose money has reached the privileged creditors.
peruenisse autem quemadmodum accipimus, utrum si statim profecta est ab inferioribus ad priuilegiarios an uero et si per debitoris personam, hoc est si ante ei numerata sit et sic debitoris facta creditori priuilegiario numerata est? quod quidem potest benigne dici, si modo non post aliquod interuallum id factum sit.
But how indeed do we understand "to have reached"? Whether only if it has proceeded immediately from the lower creditors to the privileged ones, or also if it is through the person of the debtor, that is, if it was first counted out to him and, having thus become the debtor's, was counted out to the privileged creditor? This indeed can be liberally affirmed, provided that it was not done after some interval of time.

Notes

  1. §42.5.24.2uendundis — An archaic form of the gerundive equivalent to 'uendendis', agreeing with the ablative noun 'bonis' to form a gerundive construction meaning 'in selling the property'.
  2. §42.5.24.2futurum — A future infinitive with 'esse' omitted, introducing an accusative-and-infinitive construction (with 'eum' as the subject accusative) dependent on the main verb 'puto'.
  3. §42.5.24.3peruenisse — An infinitive referring back to the verb 'peruenit' in the previous sentence, serving as the object of 'accipimus' ('we understand', 'we interpret').
  4. §42.5.24.3ei — A dative pronoun referring to the debtor mentioned in the phrase 'per debitoris personam' just before.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.5.24.pr-42.5.24.3. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.5.24.pr-42.5.24.3

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