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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §45.1.37.pr

Loss of Specific Money without Fault in Stipulations

Passage 7383 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that in a stipulation for specific coins, if those coins perish without the fault of the promisor, the obligation is extinguished.

[PAULUS libro duodecimo ad Sabinum. ] §45.1.37.prSi certos nummos, puta qui in arca sint, stipulatus sim et hi sine culpa promissoris perierint, nihil nobis debetur.
[PAULUS, in the twelfth book on Sabinus.] If I have stipulated for specific coins, for instance, those which are in a chest, and these have perished without the fault of the promisor, nothing is owed to us.

Notes

  1. §45.1.37.prputa — The second-person singular present imperative of the verb putare (to think), used adverbially here to mean 'for instance'.
  2. §45.1.37.prnobis — The dative of the first-person plural pronoun, corresponding to the first-person singular verb stipulatus sim in the conditional clause, used in place of the singular mihi.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §45.1.37.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:45.1.37.pr

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