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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.4.18.pr-46.4.18.1

Aquilian Stipulation and Formula for General Acceptilatio

Passage 7782 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains how multiple obligations or contracts can be discharged through a single acceptilation (the Aquilian stipulation) and provides its specific legal formula.

[FLORENTINUS libro octauo institutionum. ] §46.4.18.prEt uno ex pluribus contractibus uel certis uel incertis uel, quibusdam exceptis, ceteris et omnibus ex causis una acceptilatio et liberatio fieri potest.
[FLORENTINUS, Institutes, Book VIII] And a single acceptilation and release can be made either for one of several contracts, or for certain or uncertain contracts, or, with some exceptions, for the remainder, and indeed for all causes.
§46.4.18.1Eius rei stipulatio, quam acceptio sequatur, a Gallo Aquilio talis exposita est: 'Quidquid te mihi ex quacumque causa dare facere oportet oportebit praesens in diemue, quarumque rerum mihi tecum actio quaeque aduersus te petitio uel aduersus te persecutio est eritue, quodue tu meum habes tenes possides: quanti quaeque earum rerum res erit, tantam pecuniam dari stipulatus est Aulus Agerius, spopondit Numerius Negidius'. 'quod Numerius Negidius Aulo Agerio promisit spopondit, id haberetne a se acceptum, Numerius Negidius Aulum Agerium rogauit, Aulus Agerius Numerio Negidio acceptum fecit'.
The stipulation for this matter, which is followed by the acceptilation, was set out by Gallus Aquilius as follows: 'Whatever you are or will be bound to give or to do for me on any account, whether presently due or on a future day, and whatever action I have or shall have against you, and whatever petition or pursuit I have or shall have against you, or whatever of mine you have, hold, or possess: whatever the value of each of these things will be, Aulus Agerius stipulated that such a sum of money be given, and Numerius Negidius promised.' 'Whether he held as received from him what Numerius Negidius promised and undertook to Aulus Agerius, Numerius Negidius asked Aulus Agerius, and Aulus Agerius declared to Numerius Negidius that he held it as received.'

Notes

  1. §46.4.18.prEt uno ex pluribus contractibus uel certis uel incertis uel, quibusdam exceptis, ceteris et omnibus ex causis — The successive use of the disjunctive conjunction uel organizes the applicable scope of the acceptilation. quibusdam exceptis is an ablative absolute ('with certain things excepted') modifying ceteris ('the remaining ones').
  2. §46.4.18.1Quidquid te mihi ex quacumque causa dare facere oportet oportebit — The noun clause led by the relative pronoun quidquid anticipates (prolepsis) the content of earum rerum, which in turn defines the accusative-with-infinitive construction (tantam pecuniam dari). dare facere is an asyndeton representing a traditional legal formula.
  3. §46.4.18.1quod Numerius Negidius Aulo Agerio promisit spopondit, id haberetne a se acceptum, Numerius Negidius Aulum Agerium rogauit — The subjunctive imperfect haberet with the enclitic -ne forms an indirect question governed by the main verb rogauit. The relative clause quod... modifies the demonstrative pronoun id, representing the indirect reporting of the oral legal inquiry.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.4.18.pr-46.4.18.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.4.18.pr-46.4.18.1

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