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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.1.32.pr

Surety's Right to Assert Debtor's Defenses

Passage 7580 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpianus explains that defenses and other advantages arising from the person of the debtor can be available to a surety and other accessory obligors, even against the will of that debtor.

[IDEM libro septuagensimo sexto ad edictum. ] §46.1.32.prEx persona rei et quidem inuito reo exceptio (et cetera rei commoda) fideiussori ceterisque accessionibus competere potest.
[THE SAME in the seventy-sixth book on the Edict.] A defence (and other advantages of the debtor), arising from the person of the debtor and indeed even against the will of the debtor, can be available to a surety and to the other accessory obligors.

Notes

  1. §46.1.32.prinuito reo — An ablative absolute consisting of the adjective "inuitus" and the noun "reus" (without a participle of the verb "to be"), expressing concession or condition: "even against the will of the debtor" or "although the debtor is unwilling."
  2. §46.1.32.prcompetere — A juristic Latin usage meaning "to be available to" or "to belong to (as a right or defence)," which governs the dative case (here, "fideiussori" and "accessionibus").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.1.32.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.1.32.pr

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