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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.3.100.pr

Payment in Rome to Provincial Guardians

Passage 7756 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

The question is raised whether a debt contracted in a province but to be paid in Rome can be validly paid in Rome to provincial tutors or curators, and Paulus answers by defining the limits of their administration regarding Italian affairs.

[IDEM libro decimo responsorum. ] §46.3.100.prQuaero, an curatoribus uel tutoribus in prouincia datis Romae pecunia solui possit, quae in prouincia ita ab his faenerata esset, ut Romae solueretur, cum idem curatores uel tutores rerum Italicarum administrationem non sustinent, an, si soluerit debitor, liberetur.
[THE SAME, in the tenth book of Opinions.] I ask whether money can be paid in Rome to curators or tutors appointed in a province, which money had been lent by them in the province on the condition that it should be paid in Rome, although the same curators or tutors do not undertake the administration of Italian property; or whether, if the debtor pays, he is discharged.
Paulus respondit his tutoribus uel curatoribus recte pupillo pecuniam debitam solui, qui negotia eius administrant: eos autem, qui prouincialium rerum curatores uel tutores sunt, Italica negotia administrare non solere, nisi specialiter tutores prouincialium rerum, ut sibi Romae redderetur, promitti curauerunt.
Paulus answered that the money owed to a ward is rightly paid to those tutors or curators who administer his affairs; but that those who are curators or tutors of provincial property are not accustomed to administer Italian affairs, unless the tutors of provincial property have specially arranged for a promise to be made that it should be returned to them in Rome.

Notes

  1. §46.3.100.prQuaero, an ... an — The main verb Quaero ('I ask') governs two indirect question clauses in the subjunctive, namely 'an ... possit' and 'an ... liberetur', which are coordinated by 'an ... an'. The former asks about the possibility of payment, while the latter asks about the discharge of the debtor upon payment.
  2. §46.3.100.prpupillo pecuniam debitam — The word pupillo is the dative of pupillus ('ward') and depends on the participle debitam ('owed'), meaning 'the money owed to the ward'.
  3. §46.3.100.prpromitti curauerunt — This is the construction of curare with a passive infinitive (promitti), meaning 'to take care that something is done' or 'to cause something to be done'. Here it means 'they caused a promise to be made' (i.e., that it should be returned in Rome).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.3.100.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.3.100.pr

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