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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.6.5.pr

Stipulation by a Son Under an Insane Father

Passage 7803 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section explains that if a son under the power of an insane father stipulates that property will be safe, the resulting obligations accrue to his father.

[PAULUS libro septuagensimo sexto ad edictum. ] §46.6.5.prSi filius, qui in potestate furiosi erit, rem saluam fore stipuletur, adquirit patri obligationes.
[PAULUS, On the Edict, Book LXXVI] If a son, who is under the power of an insane person, stipulates that property will be safe, he acquires obligations for his father.

Notes

  1. §46.6.5.prrem saluam fore — An accusative with infinitive clause serving as the object of stipuletur. Fore is the alternative form of the future infinitive futurum esse, expressing the substance of the security that 'the property will be safe.'
  2. §46.6.5.prpatri — Dative of advantage (dativus commodi) or acquisition. It indicates that the rights (obligations) arising from a contract concluded by a son under paternal power (filiusfamilias) automatically accrue to the head of the household (paterfamilias), whose legal capacity to acquire is not lost even during insanity (furiosus).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.6.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.6.5.pr

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