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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §48.13.14.pr

Recovering Private Debt from a Treasury Debtor

Passage 8325 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Marcellus explains that recovering a debt from a person who owes money to both oneself and the treasury does not constitute embezzlement of public property, as the debtor's liability to the treasury remains intact.

[MARCELLUS libro uicensimo quinto digestorum. ] §48.13.14.prPeculatus nequaquam committitur, si exigam ab eo pecuniam, qui et mihi et fisco debet: non enim pecunia fisci intercipitur, quae debitori eius aufertur, scilicet quia manet debitor fisci nihilo minus.
[MARCELLUS, Digest, Book XXV.]\n\nEmbezzlement of public property is by no means committed if I collect money from one who owes it both to me and to the treasury; for the money of the treasury is not intercepted when it is taken from its debtor, namely because he remains a debtor to the treasury nonetheless.

Notes

  1. §48.13.14.prdebitori — Dative of separation used with the verb aufertur, indicating the person from whom something is taken away. The pronoun eius refers to fisci.
  2. §48.13.14.prexigam — Present subjunctive active (first-person singular) in the conditional clause introduced by si, indicating a hypothetical future action.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §48.13.14.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:48.13.14.pr

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