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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.3.9.pr-46.3.9.1

Payment to an Appointed Slave's Master and Partial Performance

Passage 7664 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian discusses the validity of payment to the master of a slave designated as an alternative payee, and the effect of partial performance on the release of obligations involving divisible and indivisible debts.

[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo quarto ad Sabinum. ] §46.3.9.prStipulatus sum mihi aut Sticho seruo Sempronii solui: Sempronio solui non potest, quamuis dominus serui sit.
[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo quarto ad Sabinum.] I stipulated that payment be made to me or to Stichus, the slave of Sempronius; payment cannot be made to Sempronius, although he is the master of the slave.
§46.3.9.1Qui decem debet, partem soluendo in parte obligationis liberatur et reliqua quinque sola in obligatione remanent: item qui Stichum debet, parte Stichi data in reliquam partem tenetur.
He who owes ten is released from a part of the obligation by paying a part, and the remaining five alone remain in obligation; likewise, he who owes Stichus remains bound for the remaining part when a part of Stichus has been given.
qui autem hominem debet, partem Stichi dando nihilo minus hominem debere non desinit: denique homo adhuc ab eo peti potest.
But he who owes a slave in general does not cease to owe a slave by giving a part of Stichus; indeed, a slave can still be demanded from him.
sed si debitor reliquam partem Stichi soluerit uel per actorem steterit, quo minus accipiat, liberatur.
But if the debtor pays the remaining part of Stichus, or if it is due to the creditor that he does not receive it, he is released.

Notes

  1. §46.3.9.prstipulatus sum mihi aut Sticho seruo Sempronii solui — The infinitive solui is a present passive infinitive, forming an accusative and infinitive construction as the object of stipulatus sum (perfect of stipulor "stipulate"). It functions impersonally ("that payment be made") without a specific subject of payment being expressed.
  2. §46.3.9.1per actorem steterit, quo minus accipiat — The phrase per aliquem stat, quominus... is an idiomatic expression meaning "it is due to someone that ... not" or "it is through someone's fault that ... is prevented." Here, actor refers to the plaintiff, i.e., the creditor. Steterit is a future perfect indicative (or perfect subjunctive) in the conditional clause.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.3.9.pr-46.3.9.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.3.9.pr-46.3.9.1

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