[PAULUS libro sexagensimo secundo ad edictum. ] §46.3.56.prQui mandat solui, ipse uidetur soluere.
[PAULUS in his sixty-second book on the Edict.] He who mandates that payment be made is deemed to make payment himself.
Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.3.56.pr
Payment by Agent Deemed Payment by the Principal
Summary
Explains the legal principle that a person who commissions a payment to be made is deemed to have made the payment themselves.
Notes
- §46.3.56.prsolui — Present passive infinitive of the verb `soluere` (to pay, release). It functions as the object of `mandat`, meaning literally "to mandate that [a debt] be paid", i.e., to commission or order a payment.
- §46.3.56.pripse uidetur soluere — A construction of `uideri` (to be deemed, to seem) with a nominative and infinitive (nominativus cum infinitivo). `ipse` (himself) is the subject, meaning "he himself is deemed to make payment". It expresses the legal principle that a payment made through an agent is attributed to the principal.
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