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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.2.4.pr

Delegation of Personal Obligations and Exclusion of Novation

Passage 7625 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian discusses how delegating a debtor of a usufruct does not cause novation due to the highly personal nature of the usufruct, although the debtor is protected by exceptions, and states that the same rule applies to any obligation closely connected to a person.

[ULPIANUS libro quinto ad Sabinum. ] §46.2.4.prSi usus fructus debitorem meum delegauero tibi, non nouatur obligatio mea: quamuis exceptione doli uel in factum tutus debeat esse aduersus me is qui delegatus fuerit, et non solum donec manet ei usus fructus cui delegaui, sed etiam post interitum eius: uidebimus quia etiam hoc incommodum sentit, si post mortem meam maneat ei usus fructus.
[ULPIANUS, in the fifth book on Sabinus.] If I delegate my debtor of a usufruct to you, my obligation is not novated; although he who has been delegated ought to be protected against me by an exception of fraud or on the facts, and not only as long as the usufruct remains with him to whom I delegated it, but also after its termination: we shall see whether he also suffers this disadvantage if the usufruct remains with him after my death.
et haec eadem dicenda sunt in qualibet obligatione personae cohaerenti.
And these same things must be said in the case of any obligation closely connected to a person.

Notes

  1. §46.2.4.prusus fructus — The genitive singular of the fourth-declension noun ususfructus, modifying debitorem (accusative singular), meaning 'the debtor of (bound to deliver) a usufruct'.
  2. §46.2.4.pruidebimus quia — The conjunction quia following uidebimus (future tense, 'we shall see') is used in late and juristic Latin to introduce an indirect question ('whether') instead of classical an or num.
  3. §46.2.4.prpersonae cohaerenti — cohaerenti is the ablative singular of the present participle cohaerens, agreeing with the preceding feminine ablative singular obligatione. The dative personae depends on cohaerenti, meaning 'closely connected/adhering to a person' (i.e., highly personal or non-transmissible).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.2.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.2.4.pr

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