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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §46.8.4.pr

Sureties' Liability for Partial Claims by Procurators

Passage 7835 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It defines the scope of liability for the sureties of ratification when a procurator sues for a lesser sum and the principal sues for the full amount.

[SCAEUOLA libro tertio decimo quaestionum. ] §46.8.4.prProcurator quinquaginta petit: si dominus centum petat, tenebuntur fideiussores, qui de ratihabitione cauerunt, in quinquaginta et quanti interfuit differri quinquaginta actionem.
[SCAEVOLA, Questions, Book XIII.] A procurator sues for fifty: if the principal should sue for one hundred, the sureties who gave security for ratification will be liable for fifty, and for the amount of interest there was in the action for fifty being delayed.

Notes

  1. §46.8.4.prquanti interfuit differri quinquaginta actionem — quanti is a genitive of value/interest used with the impersonal verb interfuit to express the amount of interest or damages. differri is a present passive infinitive, forming an accusative-and-infinitive construction with its subject accusative quinquaginta actionem (the action for fifty), which functions as the subject of interfuit.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §46.8.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:46.8.4.pr

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