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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §45.1.33.pr

Discharge by Death of Subject-Matter Before Due Date

Passage 7379 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

If a slave promised to be delivered on a specific day dies before that day, the promisor is discharged from liability due to the impossibility of performance.

[POMPONIUS libro uicensimo quinto ad Sabinum. ] §45.1.33.prSi Stichus certo die dari promissus ante diem moriatur, non tenetur promissor.
[POMPONIUS, in the twenty-fifth book on Sabinus.] If Stichus, who was promised to be given on a certain day, should die before that day, the promisor is not held liable.

Notes

  1. §45.1.33.prdari promissus — An instance of the personal construction (nominativus cum infinitivo), where the perfect participle `promissus` agrees in gender, number, and case with the subject `Stichus`, taking the passive infinitive `dari` to mean "having been promised to be given."
  2. §45.1.33.prante diem — Refers back to `dies` in `certo die` (a certain day), meaning "before that appointed day." It specifies the legal consequence when the subject matter of the stipulation perishes before the due date.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §45.1.33.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:45.1.33.pr

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