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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.4.1.pr

Definition of Acceptilatio as Release by Interrogation

Passage 7765 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Presents the definition of acceptilatio, explaining it as a release through mutual interrogation, which results in the discharge of both parties from the same bond.

[MODESTINUS libro secundo regularum. ] §46.4.1.prAcceptilatio est liberatio per mutuam interrogationem, qua utriusque contingit ab eodem nexu absolutio.
[Modestinus in the second book of Rules.] Acceptilatio is a release by mutual interrogation, through which there occurs the discharge of both from the same bond.

Notes

  1. §46.4.1.prqua — Relative pronoun in the feminine ablative singular, whose antecedent is most naturally the immediately preceding mutuam interrogationem (feminine accusative singular), though liberatio is grammatically possible. It functions as an ablative of means, meaning "through which mutual interrogation."
  2. §46.4.1.prutriusque — Genitive singular of the pronoun uterque, modifying absolutio (either as a subjective or objective genitive), meaning "the discharge of both" (creditor and debtor).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.4.1.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.4.1.pr

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