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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.3.70.pr

Early Performance of an Obligation for the Debtor's Benefit

Passage 7725 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Celsus explains that a performance promised for a specific day can be rendered immediately, as the entire intervening period before the deadline is understood to be reserved for the benefit of the promisor.

[IDEM libro uicensimo sexto digestorum. ] §46.3.70.prQuod certa die promissum est, uel statim dari potest: totum enim medium tempus ad soluendum promissori liberum relinqui intellegitur.
[THE SAME, in his twenty-sixth book of the Digests.] What has been promised for a certain day can even be paid immediately; for the entire intervening time is understood to be left free to the promisor for making the payment.

Notes

  1. §46.3.70.prcerta die — Ablative of time, meaning "on a certain day" or "at a specific deadline," pointing to the date fixed for performance.
  2. §46.3.70.prad soluendum — The preposition `ad` combined with the gerund in the accusative case (`soluendum`), expressing the purpose ("for making payment").
  3. §46.3.70.prreliqui intellegitur — A personal construction of the passive `intellegitur` with the passive infinitive `reliqui` (nominative with infinitive), where `totum medium tempus` serves as the subject. It expresses that "the entire intervening time is understood to be left..."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.3.70.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.3.70.pr

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