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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.1.46.pr

Release of the Surety When the Law Restricts a Sale

Passage 7594 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

When the law counteracts a sale, the surety is also released from liability, all the more because any action against the surety would ultimately reach the principal debtor.

[IAUOLENUS libro decimo ex posterioribus Labeonis. ] §46.1.46.prCum lex uenditionibus occurrere uoluerit, fideiussor quoque liberatur, eo magis quod per eiusmodi actionem ad reum peruenitur.
[JAVOLENUS, in the tenth book from the posthumous works of Labeo.] When the law wishes to counteract sales, the surety also is released, all the more so because through an action of this kind, recourse is had to the principal debtor.

Notes

  1. §46.1.46.pruenditionibus occurrere — The verb occurrere (infinitive of occurro), which governs the dative, here means that the law counteracts, prevents, or invalidates the sales.
  2. §46.1.46.preo magis quod — A combination of the ablative of degree of difference eo, the comparative magis, and the causal conjunction quod, meaning 'all the more so because...' or 'especially since...'.
  3. §46.1.46.prreum — Instead of its general meaning of 'defendant,' in the context of suretyship (fideiussio) this term refers to the 'principal debtor' (reus principalis) in contrast to the surety (fideiussor).
  4. §46.1.46.prperuenitur — The third-person singular passive of the verb peruenio used impersonally. Literally meaning 'it is arrived at,' here it expresses that the effects or consequences of the action 'reach' or 'extend to' the principal debtor.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.1.46.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.1.46.pr

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