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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.3.54.pr

Definition of Payment as General Release from Obligation

Passage 7709 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains that the term "payment" (solutio) does not merely signify the physical payment of money, but refers more broadly to any form of release from an obligation, focusing on the substance of liberation.

[PAULUS libro quinquagensimo sexto ad edictum. ] §46.3.54.prSolutionis uerbum pertinet ad omnem liberationem quoquo modo factam magisque ad substantiam obligationis refertur, quam ad nummorum solutionem.
[PAULUS in his fifty-sixth book on the Edict.] The word "payment" relates to every liberation, in whatever manner it is effected, and refers more to the substance of the obligation than to the payment of money.

Notes

  1. §46.3.54.prSolutionis uerbum — The genitive `Solutionis` functions as an appositional or definitive genitive modifying `uerbum`, meaning "the word 'payment' (solutio)".
  2. §46.3.54.prquoquo modo factam — The perfect participle `factam` (feminine accusative singular) modifies `liberationem`. `quoquo modo` ("in whatever manner") is an ablative of manner or means consisting of the ablative singular neuter of the generalizing relative adjective `quisquis` and the noun `modo`, modifying the participle `factam`.
  3. §46.3.54.prmagisque ... refertur, quam ... — The comparative adverb `magis` and the conjunction `quam` are used correlatively to show that the prepositional phrase `ad substantiam obligationis` (to the substance of the obligation) is a more appropriate object for the passive verb `refertur` (is referred) than `ad nummorum solutionem` (to the payment of money).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.3.54.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.3.54.pr

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