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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.1.58.pr-46.1.58.1

Surety Liability for Rents and Perpetuation of Obligations

Passage 7606 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains the scope of a surety's liability under a single stipulation for multiple rent payments, and the effect on the surety when the principal debtor's default perpetuates the obligation.

[PAULUS libro uicensimo secundo quaestionum. ] §46.1.58.prSi a colono stipulatus fideiussorem accepi, una stipulatio est plurium pensionum, et ideo in uniuersis pensionibus fideiussor tenetur.
[SCAEVOLA, in the eighteenth book of Questions.] If I, having stipulated with a tenant, have received a surety, there is one stipulation for several rent payments, and therefore the surety is bound for all the rent payments.
§46.1.58.1Cum facto suo reus principalis obligationem perpetuat, etiam fideiussoris durat obligatio, ueluti si moram fecit in Sticho soluendo et is decessit.
When the principal debtor by his own act perpetuates the obligation, the obligation of the surety also endures; as, for instance, if he fell into delay in delivering Stichus and the latter died.

Notes

  1. §46.1.58.prstipulatus — The perfect participle of the deponent verb *stipulor*, used with an active meaning ("having stipulated"). It functions as an attributive modifier agreeing with the implied first-person subject of the main verb *accepi* ("I").
  2. §46.1.58.1in Sticho soluendo — A gerundive construction consisting of the preposition *in*, the noun *Sticho*, and the agreeing gerundive *soluendo* (from *soluere*, "to pay" or "to deliver"). It means "in delivering (the slave) Stichus."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.1.58.pr-46.1.58.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.1.58.pr-46.1.58.1

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