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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.2.16.pr

Novation by a Slave without the Master's Consent

Passage 7637 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that a slave cannot perform a novation without the master's consent, and such an act results in adding a new obligation rather than novating the original one.

[FLORENTINUS libro octauo institutionum. ] §46.2.16.prSeruus nec peculiarem quidem obligationem citra uoluntatem domini nouare potest, sed adicit potius obligationem quam pristinam nouat.
[FLORENTINUS, Institutes, Book 8.] A slave cannot, without the consent of his master, novate even an obligation relating to his peculium, but rather adds a new obligation than novates the old one.

Notes

  1. §46.2.16.prcitra — The preposition citra originally means "on this side of" or "short of" in classical Latin, but in juristic and post-classical Latin it is frequently used in the sense of sine ("without"). Here it means "without the consent of the master."
  2. §46.2.16.pradicit potius obligationem quam pristinam nouat — A comparative construction using potius ... quam ("rather ... than"). Both adicit and nouat function as verbs for the subject seruus. pristinam modifies the preceding obligationem implicitly, meaning "rather adds an obligation than novates the former one."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.2.16.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.2.16.pr

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