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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.8.2.pr

Standard of Stipulator's Interest in Ratification Stipulations

Passage 7833 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

In a stipulation for ratification, the standard is not the financial advantage of either party, but the actual interest of the stipulator in having the transaction ratified.

[IDEM libro undecimo responsorum. ] §46.8.2.prIn stipulatione de rato habendo non est cogitandum rei promittendi uel stipulandi compendium, sed quid interfuerit eius qui stipulatus est ratum haberi quod gestum est.
[THE SAME, Opinions, Book XI.] In a stipulation for ratification, one must not consider the advantage of the promisor or of the stipulator, but what interest it was to the person who stipulated that what was done should be ratified.

Notes

  1. §46.8.2.prrei promittendi uel stipulandi — The word 'rei' is the genitive of 'reus' (party). 'Promittendi' and 'stipulandi' are genitive gerundives modifying the noun 'rei'. 'Reus promittendi' (the promisor/debtor) and 'reus stipulandi' (the stipulator/creditor) are technical legal terms, here used in the genitive to mean 'of the promisor or of the stipulator'.
  2. §46.8.2.prquid interfuerit eius qui stipulatus est ratum haberi quod gestum est — An indirect question clause introduced by 'quid interfuerit', the perfect subjunctive of the impersonal verb 'interest' (it concerns, it is of interest to). The person concerned is expressed in the genitive, which is 'eius'. The relative clause 'qui...' modifies 'eius', where 'stipulatus est' takes the accusative with infinitive clause 'ratum haberi quod gestum est' (that what was done should be ratified) as its object.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.8.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.8.2.pr

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