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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §45.2.5.pr

Joint Creditors and Debtors in Promises of Services

Passage 7494 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Julianus explains that, on the premise that another's services can be promised and a surety employed, joint creditors or joint debtors can be validly established regarding the same services, using the example of artisans.

[IULIANUS libro uicensimo secundo digestorum. ] §45.2.5.prNemo est qui nesciat alienas operas promitti posse et fideiussorem adhiberi in ea obligatione.
[JULIANUS in the twenty-second book of the Digests.] There is no one who does not know that the services of another can be promised, and that a surety can be employed in that obligation.
et ideo nihil prohibet duos reos stipulandi constitui uel promittendi, sicuti si ab eodem fabro duo rei stipulandi easdem operas stipulentur: et ex contrario duo fabri eiusdem peritiae easdem operas promittere intelleguntur et duo rei promittendi fieri.
And therefore, nothing prevents two joint creditors or joint debtors of promising from being established, just as if two joint creditors should stipulate for the same services from the same artisan; and conversely, two artisans of the same skill are understood to promise the same services and to become two joint debtors of promising.

Notes

  1. §45.2.5.prNemo est qui nesciat — A relative clause with the subjunctive present nesciat (subjunctive of characteristic) modifying the antecedent nemo, expressing a strong affirmative meaning 'there is no one who does not know' (everyone knows).
  2. §45.2.5.prpromittere intelleguntur et duo rei promittendi fieri — Nominative with infinitive (N.C.I.) construction. The subject of the verb intelleguntur is duo fabri eiusdem peritiae, with which the infinitives promittere and fieri agree; the complement of fieri, namely duo rei promittendi, is also in the nominative case.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §45.2.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:45.2.5.pr

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