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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.3.64.pr

Payment to Creditor's Creditor by Order and Mutual Release

Passage 7719 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that when a debtor pays the creditor's creditor by the creditor's order, a release from liability is effected for both parties.

[IDEM libro quarto decimo ad Plautium. ] §46.3.64.prCum iussu meo id, quod mihi debes, soluis creditori meo, et tu a me et ego a creditore meo liberor.
[THE SAME, in his fourteenth book on Plautius.]\n\nWhen by my order you pay to my creditor that which you owe to me, both you are released from me and I am released from my creditor.

Notes

  1. §46.3.64.prtu a me et ego a creditore meo liberor — Although there are two subjects, 'tu' (second person singular) and 'ego' (first person singular), the verb 'liberor' is in the first person singular, agreeing with the closer subject 'ego'. The verb form 'liberaris' for 'tu' is omitted by syllepsis.
  2. §46.3.64.prtu a me et ego a creditore meo liberor — Although there are two subjects, 'tu' (second person singular) and 'ego' (first person singular), the verb 'liberor' is in the first person singular, agreeing with the closer subject 'ego'. This is a typical example of syllepsis where the verb form 'liberaris' corresponding to 'tu' is omitted.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.3.64.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.3.64.pr

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