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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §42.8.22.pr

Pledge for an Existing Debt and Rescission for Fraud

Passage 7024 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This chunk discusses that a creditor who accepted pledges for an old debt is not barred from pursuing those pledges, unless the transaction was made to defraud other creditors and is challenged by standard legal remedies.

[IDEM libro quinto responsorum. ] §42.8.22.prCum in uetus creditum unus creditor pignora accepisset, quaero, an in fraudem ceterorum creditorum factum nullius momenti esset.
[THE SAME in the fifth book of Responses.] When one creditor had accepted pledges for an old debt, I ask whether what was done to the defraud of the other creditors was of no moment.
respondit creditorem non idcirco prohibendum a persecutione pignorum, quod, in uetus creditum ut obligaretur, pactus esset, nisi id in fraudem ceterorum creditorum factum sit et ea uia iuris occurratur, qua creditorum fraudes rescindi solent.
He replied that the creditor was not therefore to be barred from the pursuit of his pledges because he had agreed that they should be bound for an old debt, unless this was done to the defraud of the other creditors and was opposed by that course of law by which fraud on creditors is accustomed to be rescinded.

Notes

  1. 42.8.22.prnullius momenti — Genitive of quality, functioning as the predicate of the subjunctive verb esset, meaning 'of no moment' or 'invalid / of no effect.'
  2. 42.8.22.proccurratur — Impersonal passive of the verb occurro (subjunctive present), meaning 'it is opposed' or 'action is taken against.' It is construed with the ablative of means ea uia iuris.

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