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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.4.20.pr

Extinction of Stipulation by Acceptilatio of Judgment Clause

Passage 7784 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian cites Marcellus' opinion that if a release is granted for a clause inserted for the sake of a judgment, the remaining parts of the stipulation vanish because their sole purpose was to enable the judgment to be rendered.

[IDEM libro septuagensimo septimo ad edictum. ] §46.4.20.prSi accepto fuerit lata ob rem iudicatam clausula, Marcellus ait ceteras partes stipulationis euanuisse: propter hoc enim tantum interponuntur, ut res iudicari possit.
[THE SAME, On the Edict, Book LXXVII] If a release has been granted in respect of a clause inserted for the sake of a judgment, Marcellus says that the other parts of the stipulation have vanished; for they are inserted only for this purpose, that the case may be decided.

Notes

  1. §46.4.20.praccepto fuerit lata — Passive voice (future perfect or perfect) of the verbal phrase accepto ferre (to acknowledge as received / to grant a release). The subject is the subsequent feminine singular noun 'clausula'. In juristic Latin, forms of 'fuerit' are frequently used as auxiliaries instead of 'erit' or 'est' to form passive tenses.
  2. §46.4.20.prceteras partes stipulationis euanuisse — An accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction functioning as the object of the main verb 'ait' (says). 'stipulationis' (of the stipulation) is a genitive modifying 'partes' (parts/clauses). 'euanuisse' is the perfect infinitive of the intransitive verb 'euanesco' (to vanish, lose effect).
  3. §46.4.20.prpropter hoc enim tantum interponuntur, ut res iudicari possit — The 'ut'-clause (purpose or result) serves to explain and specify the preceding 'propter hoc' (for this reason). 'res iudicari' means 'for the case/dispute to be decided by judgment'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.4.20.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.4.20.pr

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