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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §44.4.6.pr

Exception of Fraud for Creditor Fault and Non-Ratification

Passage 7269 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This passage explains that a creditor is barred by the exception of dolus malus if the debtor loses the money due to the creditor's fault, or if the creditor fails to ratify a payment made to his own creditor.

[GAIUS libro trigensimo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §44.4.6.prSi opera creditoris acciderit, ut debitor pecuniam, quam soluturus erat, perderet, exceptione doli mali creditor remouebitur.
[GAIUS in the thirtieth book on the provincial edict.] If it should happen through the agency of the creditor that the debtor loses the money which he was about to pay, the creditor will be barred by the exception of dolus malus.
idem est et si creditori eius numeratam pecuniam ratam creditor non habeat.
The same applies if the creditor does not ratify the money paid to his creditor.

Notes

  1. §44.4.6.pracciderit, ut — The verb acciderit is used impersonally, with the ut clause (ut ... perderet) functioning as its subject clause.
  2. §44.4.6.prcreditori eius — The pronoun eius refers to the creditor; thus, 'to his (the creditor's) creditor'. It describes a scenario where the creditor does not ratify (ratam habere) a payment made by the debtor to the creditor's own creditor.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §44.4.6.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:44.4.6.pr

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