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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §44.7.27.pr

Inability of Public Authority to Validate Void Obligations

Passage 7312 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that obligations which do not subsist by their own strength cannot be validated or reinforced by a judge's office, a praetor's command, or the power of a statute.

[PAPINIANUS libro uicensimo septimo quaestionum. ] §44.7.27.prObligationes, quae non propriis uiribus consistunt, neque officio iudicis neque praetoris imperio neque legis potestate confirmantur.
[PAPINIAN, from his twenty-seventh book of Questions.] Obligations which do not subsist by their own strength are confirmed neither by the office of the judge, nor by the authority of the praetor, nor by the power of the statute.

Notes

  1. §44.7.27.prpropriis uiribus consistunt — propriis uiribus is an ablative of means or cause modifying the intransitive verb consistere (to subsist). It refers to obligations that lack intrinsic substantive or legal validity.
  2. §44.7.27.profficio iudicis neque praetoris imperio neque legis potestate — These three ablatives (officio, imperio, potestate) are coordinated as ablatives of means modifying the passive verb confirmantur.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §44.7.27.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:44.7.27.pr

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