Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.5.26.pr

Privilege of Creditors Lending for Ship Construction or Purchase

Passage 6975 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It stipulates that a person who has lent money for the construction, equipment, or purchase of a ship has a privileged claim.

[PAULUS libro sexto decimo breuis edicti. ] §42.5.26.prQui in nauem exstruendam uel instruendam credidit uel etiam emendam, priuilegium habet.

[PAULUS, on the Short Edict, book 16] He who has lent money for the building, equipping, or even purchasing of a ship, has a privilege.

Notes

42.5.26.prin nauem exstruendam uel instruendam credidit uel etiam emendam — The preposition 'in' with the accusative noun 'nauem' is modified by the gerundives (exstruendam, instruendam, emendam) in agreement, expressing the purpose or destination of the loan: 'for the building, equipping, or purchasing of a ship'. The intransitive verb 'credidit' (perfect of credere) means 'to lend money' or 'to give credit', and this prepositional phrase specifies the use of the lent funds. The word 'etiam' emphasizes that the privilege extends even to the 'purchasing' of a ship, not just its construction or equipment.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.5.26.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.5.26.pr

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