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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.1.55.pr

Surety Liability for Future Loans and Equal Appropriation

Passage 7603 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses a stipulation guaranteeing future unspecified loans, where the main promisor and their sureties are bound for the entirety of all loans, and any recovered assets must benefit all the loan claims equally.

[IDEM libro undecimo quaestionum. ] §46.1.55.prSi ita stipulatus a Seio fuero: 'quantam pecuniam Titio quandoque credidero, dare spondes?' et fideiussores accepero, deinde Titio saepius credidero: nempe Seius in omnes summas obligatus est et per hoc fideiussores quoque, et id, quod ex bonis eius seruari potest, omnibus aequo iure proficere debet.
[The same, in the eleventh book of Questions.] If I should have stipulated from Seius as follows: 'Do you promise to pay whatever money I shall have loaned to Titius at any time?' and I should have accepted sureties, and then I should have loaned money to Titius several times: surely Seius is bound for all the sums, and through this the sureties as well, and that which can be recovered from his property ought to benefit all the sums by equal right.

Notes

  1. §46.1.55.prquandoque credidero — The combination of the future perfect credidero and the adverb quandoque ('whenever', 'at any time') posits an indefinite future scenario where multiple loans of uncertain amounts might be made.
  2. §46.1.55.prfideiussores quoque — Ellipsis of obligati sunt. It indicates that, alongside the main obligation of Seius (obligatus est) for all the loan sums, the sureties are also likewise bound for that entire amount.
  3. §46.1.55.promnibus — Dative. Contextually referring back to omnes summas (all the loan sums), indicating that the amount recovered from Seius's property should not be applied to specific loans preferentially, but must benefit all the loan claims equally (aequo iure).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.1.55.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.1.55.pr

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