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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.10.28.pr

Forgery by Predating the Creation of a Pledge

Passage 8294 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that the charge of forgery applies if a debtor falsifies a pledge obligation by predating it, typically to gain priority.

[IDEM libro quarto responsorum. ] §48.10.28.prSi, a debitore praelato die, pignoris obligatio mentiatur, falsi crimini locus est.
[BY THE SAME, Responsa, Book 4.] If, with the date being advanced by the debtor, a pledge obligation is falsified, there is room for the charge of forgery.

Notes

  1. §48.10.28.prpraelato die — An ablative absolute or ablative of attendant circumstances composed of praelato, the perfect passive participle of praefero (to set before, to antedate), and the noun die. It refers to the act of fraudulently predating a pledge agreement, typically to secure priority over other creditors.
  2. §48.10.28.prmentiatur — The third-person singular present subjunctive of the deponent verb mentior (to lie, to counterfeit, to falsify). It is used in the conditional si-clause to express a hypothetical or general scenario, with pignoris obligatio functioning as its subject.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.10.28.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.10.28.pr

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