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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §44.7.21.pr

Place of Contract Regarded as the Place of Performance

Passage 7306 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This fragment outlines the legal rule that a contract is deemed to be made in the place where the obligation is agreed to be performed.

[IULIANUS libro tertio ex Minicio. ] §44.7.21.prContraxisse unusquisque in eo loco intellegitur, in quo ut solueret se obligauit.
[JULIANUS, from the third book on Minicius.] Everyone is understood to have contracted in that place in which he bound himself to perform.

Notes

  1. §44.7.21.prContraxisse unusquisque in eo loco intellegitur — A nominative with infinitive construction, where the subject unusquisque (nominative) and the perfect infinitive contraxisse are used with the passive verb intellegitur, meaning "everyone is understood to have contracted."
  2. §44.7.21.prut solueret se obligauit — A subjunctive imperfect clause introduced by ut, depending on the phrase se obligare ("to bind oneself to..."). Here, soluere means "to perform" or "to pay" an obligation.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §44.7.21.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:44.7.21.pr

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