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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.1.31.pr

Delay of Reimbursement for Premature Payment by a Surety

Passage 7579 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section establishes the rule that if a surety or another party pays the creditor before the due date on behalf of the debtor, they must wait until the original due date arrives.

[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo tertio ad edictum. ] §46.1.31.prSi fideiussor uel quis alius pro reo ante diem creditori soluerit, exspectare debebit diem, quo eum soluere oportuit.
[ULPIANUS in the twenty-third book on the Edict.] If a surety or anyone else pays the creditor on behalf of the principal debtor before the due date, he will have to wait for the day on which it was proper for that debtor to pay.

Notes

  1. §46.1.31.prpro reo — In this context, 'reus' refers to the 'principal debtor' in the contract of suretyship, rather than a 'defendant' in a lawsuit.
  2. §46.1.31.prquo eum soluere oportuit — The ablative relative pronoun 'quo' indicates the time referring back to the antecedent 'diem'. The accusative 'eum' is the logical subject of the infinitive 'soluere' governed by the impersonal verb 'oportuit', referring back to the principal debtor.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.1.31.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.1.31.pr

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