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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.1.6.pr-46.1.6.2

Subsequent Addition of Sureties, Conditions, and Future Debts

Passage 7554 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains the validity of adding a surety after a principal obligation has been established, the permissibility of imposing conditions or time limits on the surety, and the requirement of an underlying (even if only natural) future obligation for future suretyship.

[IDEM libro quadragensimo septimo ad Sabinum. ] §46.1.6.prStipulatus sum a reo nec accepi fideiussorem: postea uolo adicere fideiussorem: si adiecero, fideiussor obligatur.
[THE SAME in the forty-seventh book on Sabinus.] I stipulated from a principal debtor and did not accept a surety; afterwards I wish to add a surety: if I add one, the surety is bound.
§46.1.6.1Et parui refert, utrum pure fideiussorem obligem an ex die an sub condicione.
And it matters little whether I bind the surety unconditionally, or from a certain day, or under a condition.
§46.1.6.2Adhiberi autem fideiussor tam futurae quam praecedenti obligationi potest, dummodo sit aliqua uel naturalis futura obligatio.
Now a surety can be added to a future as well as to a preceding obligation, provided that there is some future obligation, even if it is only a natural one.

Notes

  1. 46.1.6.1parui refert — parui is a genitive of value or degree modifying the impersonal verb refert, meaning "it matters little." It is followed by an indirect question introduced by utrum... an...
  2. 46.1.6.2aliqua uel naturalis futura obligatio — uel here functions not as a disjunctive, but as an intensive ("even", "at least"). Thus, it should be interpreted as "some future obligation, even if it is only a natural one."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.1.6.pr-46.1.6.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.1.6.pr-46.1.6.2

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