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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.7.4.pr

Denial of Action to Fraudulent Debtor After Estate Sale

Passage 7000 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Citation of a rescript of the joint Emperors by Papirius Justus, stating that once property is sold under a Senate decree, the fraudulent debtor has no right of action based on prior transactions.

[PAPIRIUS IUSTUS libro primo de constitutionibus. ] §42.7.4.prImperatores Antoninus et Uerus Augusti rescripserunt bonis per curatorem ex senatus consulto distractis nullam actionem ex ante gesto fraudatori competere.
[PAPIRIUS IUSTUS, On Constitutions, Book 1] The Emperors Antoninus and Verus Augusti wrote in a rescript that after property has been sold by a curator under a decree of the Senate, no action arising from previous transactions is available to the fraudulent debtor.

Notes

  1. §42.7.4.prbonis ... distractis — An ablative absolute construction. The perfect participle distractis (from distrahere, 'to sell, dispose of') agrees with the plural noun bonis (from bona, 'property' in the ablative plural), expressing time or condition ('after the property has been sold').
  2. §42.7.4.prex ante gesto — The preposition ex ('from') governs the ablative gesto, which is the perfect participle neuter singular gestum (from gerere, 'to do, conduct') used substantively with the adverb ante ('before'), meaning 'from previous transactions' or 'from acts done before'.
  3. §42.7.4.prfraudatori competere — In the accusative-and-infinitive construction (aci), the infinitive competere ('to belong to, be available to') takes the dative of interest/possession fraudatori ('to/for the fraudulent debtor'). With the negative subject accusative nullam actionem, it means 'no action is available to the fraudulent debtor'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.7.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.7.4.pr

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