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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §45.1.47.pr

Stipulation for Performance on a Future Due Date

Passage 7394 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that a person who stipulates for the performance of an obligation on a future specific day (the Kalends) is deemed to make the stipulation not today, but on that due day.

[ULPIANUS libro quinquagensimo ad Sabinum. ] §45.1.47.prQui sic stipulatur: 'quod te mihi illis kalendis dare oportet, id dare spondes?' uidetur non hodie stipulari, sed sua die, hoc est kalendis.
[ULPIANUS, in the fiftieth book on Sabinus.] He who stipulates thus: 'Do you promise to give that which you ought to give to me on those Kalends?' is deemed to stipulate not today, but on its own day, that is, on the Kalends.

Notes

  1. §45.1.47.pruidetur ... stipulari — The verb `uidetur` (third-person singular present indicative) takes its subject from the relative clause `qui...` and governs the deponent infinitive `stipulari`, forming a personal construction (nominative with infinitive): "is deemed to stipulate".
  2. §45.1.47.prsua die — Ablative feminine singular. The noun `dies` is usually masculine, but frequently feminine when it denotes a fixed day or term. Here, combined with the feminine ablative singular of the possessive adjective `sua`, it functions as an ablative of time: "on its own appointed day".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §45.1.47.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:45.1.47.pr

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