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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §45.1.121.pr-45.1.121.3

Conditions in Accordance with Good Morals and Heir Liability for Fraud

Passage 7468 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Papinian discusses the applicability of an action for an uncertain amount under a specific guarantee clause, the validity of a conditional stipulation made upon marriage in accordance with good morals, the timing of a condition based on the death of a deported promisor, and the liability of an heir under a stipulation for fraud.

[IDEM libro undecimo responsorum. ] §45.1.121.prEx ea parte cautionis: 'dolumque malum huic rei promissionique abesse afuturumque esse stipulatus est ille, spopondit ille', incerti agetur.
[THE SAME, book eleven of Responses.] Under this part of a written guarantee: 'He stipulated that fraud is and shall be absent from this transaction and promise, and he promised', an action for an uncertain amount shall be brought.
§45.1.121.1Stipulationis utiliter interponendae gratia mulier ab eo, in cuius matrimonium conueniebat, stipulata fuerat ducenta, si concubinae tempore matrimonii consuetudinem repetisset.
For the sake of effectively interposing a stipulation, a woman, from the man into whose marriage she was entering, had stipulated for two hundred, if he should resume relations with a concubine during the time of the marriage.
nihil causae esse respondi, cur ex stipulatu, quae ex bonis moribus concepta fuerat, mulier impleta condicione pecuniam adsequi non possit.
I responded that there is no reason why, under the stipulation which had been conceived in accordance with good morals, the woman should not be able to obtain the money once the condition has been fulfilled.
§45.1.121.2In insulam deportato reo promittendi stipulatio ita concepta: 'cum morieris, dari?' non nisi moriente eo committitur.
When the promisor has been deported to an island, a stipulation formulated thus: 'Do you promise that it be given when you die?' is not committed except upon his death.
§45.1.121.3Ex facto rei promittendi doli stipulatio heredem eius tenet, sicut ex ceteris aliis contractibus, ueluti mandati depositi.
On account of an act of the promisor, a stipulation for fraud binds his heir, just as in the case of other contracts, such as mandate or deposit.

Notes

  1. 45.1.121.princerti agetur — agetur is an impersonal passive verb ('an action will be brought'). incerti is a genitive of object/nature, referring to the action for an uncertain amount (actio ex stipulatu incerti).
  2. 45.1.121.1quae ex bonis moribus concepta fuerat — The relative pronoun quae (feminine singular) takes as its antecedent the feminine noun stipulatio, which is implicitly derived from the preceding prepositional phrase ex stipulatu.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §45.1.121.pr-45.1.121.3. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:45.1.121.pr-45.1.121.3

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