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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §45.1.27.pr-45.1.27.1

Denial of Action for Illegal Stipulations and Timing

Passage 7373 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius illustrates illegal stipulations with examples of murder and sacrilege, noting the praetor's duty to deny actions on them, and explains the timing of claims for a stipulation conditioned on not ascending the Capitol within two years.

[POMPONIUS libro uicensimo secundo ad Sabinum. ] §45.1.27.prueluti si quis homicidium uel sacrilegium se facturum promittat.
[POMPONIUS, in the twenty-second book on Sabinus.] As, for instance, if anyone should promise that he will commit murder or sacrilege.
sed et officio quoque praetoris continetur ex huiusmodi obligationibus actionem denegari.
But it is also contained within the office of the praetor that an action based on obligations of this kind be denied.
§45.1.27.1Si stipulatus hoc modo fuero: 'si intra biennium Capitolium non ascenderis, dari?', non nisi praeterito biennio recte petam.
If I shall have stipulated in this manner: "If you do not ascend the Capitol within two years, is it to be given?", I shall not rightly sue except after the two years have elapsed.

Notes

  1. §45.1.27.prcontinetur ... denegari — The main verb continetur is in the passive third-person singular, taking the accusative-with-infinitive clause actionem denegari (that an action is denied) as its subject. officio is an ablative of means or place, meaning "is contained within the office [of the praetor]."
  2. §45.1.27.1stipulatus fuero — The future perfect first-person singular of the deponent verb stipulor (to stipulate, to exact a promise). It indicates the action of the creditor who receives the promise, not the debtor who promises (promittere).
  3. §45.1.27.1dari — Present passive infinitive. It is an elliptical form of the standard formula used in a stipulation, dari spondes? ("Do you promise that it be given?"), where spondes is omitted, indicating the conditional subject matter of the obligation.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §45.1.27.pr-45.1.27.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:45.1.27.pr-45.1.27.1

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