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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.3.53.pr

Validity of Third-Party Payment Without Debtor's Consent

Passage 7708 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Gaius states that anyone is allowed to make a payment on behalf of someone who is unaware of it or unwilling, because civil law establishes that one is permitted to improve another person's condition even without their knowledge or consent.

[GAIUS libro quinto ad edictum prouinciale. ] §46.3.53.prSoluere pro ignorante et inuito cuique licet, cum sit iure ciuili constitutum licere etiam ignorantis inuitique meliorem condicionem facere.
[GAIUS in his fifth book on the Provincial Edict.] Anyone is allowed to make payment on behalf of a person who is ignorant of it or unwilling, since it is established in the civil law that it is permitted to make the condition of even an ignorant or unwilling person better.

Notes

  1. §46.3.53.prcum sit iure ciuili constitutum licere — The cum clause expresses cause ('since') and takes the subjunctive sit. The phrase sit constitutum is an impersonal perfect passive, which takes the accusative and infinitive clause licere etiam ignorantis inuitique meliorem condicionem facere as its subject.
  2. §46.3.53.prignorantis inuitique — Genitives of the present participles used substantively. They modify meliorem condicionem, meaning 'the condition of one who is ignorant or unwilling'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.3.53.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.3.53.pr

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