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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.2.7.pr

Stipulation in a Loan and Absence of Novation

Passage 7628 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Pomponius argues that when a stipulation is made alongside a loan of money, the obligation does not first arise from the payment and then undergo novation; rather, it arises solely from the stipulation, and the payment is to be understood as its fulfillment.

[POMPONIUS libro uicensimo quarto ad Sabinum. ] §46.2.7.prCum enim pecunia mutua data stipulamur, non puto obligationem numeratione nasci et deinde eam stipulatione nouari, quia id agitur, ut sola stipulatio teneat, et magis implendae stipulationis gratia numeratio intellegenda est fieri.
[POMPONIUS, in the twenty-fourth book on Sabinus.] For when we make a stipulation after money has been given as a loan, I do not think that an obligation arises from the payment and is then novated by the stipulation; because the intention is that the stipulation alone should hold, and the payment must rather be understood to be made for the sake of fulfilling the stipulation.

Notes

  1. §46.2.7.probligationem numeratione nasci et deinde eam stipulatione nouari — This is an accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction acting as the object of the verb puto. The subject accusative is obligationem, with which the active/deponent infinitive nasci and the passive infinitive nouari are coordinated. eam refers back to obligationem and serves as the subject accusative for nouari. numeratione and stipulatione function as ablatives of means.
  2. §46.2.7.primplendae stipulationis gratia — This is a gerundive construction where the gerundive implendae agrees with the noun stipulationis, followed by the postpositional ablative gratia (for the sake of) which governs the genitive. It translates to 'for the sake of fulfilling the stipulation'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.2.7.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.2.7.pr

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