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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.5.38.pr-42.5.38.1

Relatives Excluded from Sale and the State's Priority

Passage 6987 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It specifies the family members excluded when a debtor's property is sold, and establishes that the state's claims as a creditor take precedence over all unsecured creditors.

[PAULUS libro primo sententiarum. ] §42.5.38.prBonis uenditis excipiuntur concubina et liberi naturales.
[PAULUS in his first book of Opinions.] When property is sold, the concubine and natural children are excepted.
§42.5.38.1Res publica creditrix omnibus chirographariis creditoribus praefertur.
The state as a creditor is preferred to all unsecured creditors.

Notes

  1. §42.5.38.prBonis uenditis — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the noun bonis and the perfect passive participle uenditis. It indicates the circumstance or condition under which the forced sale of the debtor's estate (bonorum uenditio) takes place.
  2. §42.5.38.1chirographariis creditoribus — Dative case serving as the complement to the passive verb praefertur. The term chirographarius refers to an ordinary, unsecured creditor who holds only a written acknowledgment of debt (chirographum), having neither pledges nor statutory privileges.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.5.38.pr-42.5.38.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.5.38.pr-42.5.38.1

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