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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.3.43.pr

Discharge of Accessory Obligations and Exception of Merger

Passage 7698 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains the principle that the discharge of a principal obligation also discharges accessory obligations such as guarantors or pledges, with the exception that a merger of rights between the creditor and a guarantor does not discharge the principal debtor.

[ULPIANUS libro secundo regularum. ] §46.3.43.prIn omnibus speciebus liberationum etiam accessiones liberantur, puta adpromissores hypothecae pignora, praeterquam quod inter creditorem et adpromissores confusione facta reus non liberatur.
[ULPIANUS in the second book of Rules.] In all types of discharge of obligations, the accessory obligations are also discharged, for example, guarantors, mortgages, and pledges; except that when a merger of rights occurs between the creditor and the guarantors, the principal debtor is not discharged.

Notes

  1. §46.3.43.prreus — Here it refers to the "principal debtor" (reus debendi) in the context of obligations, rather than the "defendant" in procedural law, as contrasted with the guarantors (adpromissores).
  2. §46.3.43.prconfusione facta — An ablative absolute ("a merger having occurred" or "when a merger occurs"). "Merger" (confusio) in this legal context refers to the merger of rights where the creditor and debtor capacities for the same obligation (here, the guaranty) vest in the same person (e.g., through inheritance).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.3.43.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.3.43.pr

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