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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.1.3.pr

Fulfillment of Security Stipulations and Guarantor Capacity

Passage 7551 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section discusses the requirements for fulfilling a security stipulation, stating that the guarantor must be legally capable of being bound and sued, while noting that even an insolvent guarantor suffices if accepted by the creditor.

[ULPIANUS libro quadragensimo tertio ad Sabinum. ] §46.1.3.prQui satisdare promisit, ita demum implesse stipulationem satisdationis uidetur, si eum dederit accessionis loco, qui obligari potest et conueniri: ceterum si dederit seruum aut filium familias, ex quibus causis de peculio actio non datur, uel mulierem, quae auxilio senatus consulti utitur, dicendum est non esse impletam satisdationis stipulationem.
[ULPIANUS in the forty-third book on Sabinus.] A person who has promised to provide a security is deemed to have fulfilled the stipulation of security only if he has provided, in the place of an accessory, someone who can be legally bound and sued. On the other hand, if he has provided a slave or a son under paternal power, in whose case an action concerning peculiar property is not granted, or a woman who avails herself of the protection of the senate's decree, it must be said that the stipulation of security has not been fulfilled.
plane si non idoneum fideiussorem dederit, magis est, ut satisfactum sit, quia qui admisit eum fideiubentem, idoneum esse comprobauit.
Of course, if he has provided a surety who is not solvent, the better view is that the security has been satisfied, because the person who accepted him as a surety approved him as being solvent.

Notes

  1. §46.1.3.primplesse — A syncopated form of implevisse (perfect active infinitive of implere, 'to fulfill'), acting as the complementary infinitive with uidetur.
  2. §46.1.3.praccessionis loco — 'In the place of an accessory.' The word accessio here refers to an accessory debtor (i.e., a guarantor or surety) added to the principal debtor. Loco is an ablative functioning prepositionally to mean 'in the position or capacity of'.
  3. §46.1.3.prex quibus causis de peculio actio non datur — The relative pronoun quibus refers back to seruum and filium familias. It describes specific legal situations (causae) under which a creditor is not granted an action concerning the peculium (peculiar property) against the master or father.
  4. §46.1.3.prmagis est, ut satisfactum sit — 'The better view is that satisfaction has been made.' The phrase magis est ut is a standard jurisprudential idiom used by Roman jurists to express a preferred legal opinion or a more reasonable solution.
  5. §46.1.3.prqui admisit eum fideiubentem — The clause introduced by the relative pronoun qui (with an omitted antecedent like is) acts as the subject of the main verb comprobauit. The present participle fideiubentem modifies eum, functioning as a participle of action ('him acting as a surety').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.1.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.1.3.pr

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