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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.8.2.pr

Revocation of Fraudulent Release of Pledges and Priorities

Passage 7003 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian states that the same principle of revoking fraudulent acts should apply if a debtor releases pledges or prefers someone else to the detriment of creditors.

[IDEM libro septuagesimo tertio ad edictum. ] §42.8.2.pridem erit probandum: et si pignora liberet uel quem alium in fraudem creditorum praeponat
[THE SAME, On the Edict, Book 73] the same is to be approved: also if he should release pledges, or prefer anyone else to the fraud of creditors.

Notes

  1. §42.8.2.pridem erit probandum — The gerundive probandum means to "approve" or "accept" a legal view or standard. Here it expresses the legal judgment that the same conclusion of revocation should apply to the acts mentioned in the following et si clause (releasing pledges or preferring someone).
  2. §42.8.2.prpraeponat — Present subjunctive of praeponere (to place before, to prefer). It refers to the act of giving a preferential position or security interest to a particular creditor or third party with the intent to defraud other creditors (in fraudem creditorum).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §42.8.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:42.8.2.pr

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