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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §45.1.31.pr

Validity of a Conditional Stipulation for One's Own Property

Passage 7377 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius explains that if one stipulates for one's own property under a condition, the stipulation is valid provided that the property is no longer one's own at the time the condition is fulfilled.

[POMPONIUS libro uicesimo quarto ad Sabinum. ] §45.1.31.prSi rem meam sub condicione stipuler, utilis est stipulatio, si condicionis existentis tempore mea non sit.
[POMPONIUS, in the twenty-fourth book on Sabinus.] If I should stipulate for my own property under a condition, the stipulation is valid if, at the time the condition is fulfilled, the property is not mine.

Notes

  1. §45.1.31.prstipuler — First-person singular present subjunctive of the deponent verb *stipulor* (to stipulate, to exact a promise). It denotes the act of the creditor who asks the debtor to make a solemn promise.
  2. §45.1.31.prutilis — Used as a legal term meaning "valid" or "legally effective," rather than its general meaning of "useful." It indicates that the stipulation produces legal effects.
  3. §45.1.31.prcondicionis existentis — The present participle *existentis* (from *exsisto*, "to arise, come into being, be fulfilled") modifies the genitive noun *condicionis*, referring to the actual fulfillment or realization of the condition.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §45.1.31.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:45.1.31.pr

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