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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §5.1.20.pr

Treating the Place of Any Obligation as a Contract

Passage 901 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus states that all obligations must be regarded as contracts, meaning that wherever an obligation arises, a contract is deemed to have been concluded, regardless of whether the debt stems from a loan.

[PAULUS libro quinquagesimo octauo ad edictum. ] §5.1.20.prOmnem obligationem pro contractu habendam existimandum est, ut ubicumque aliquis obligetur, et contrahi uideatur, quamuis non ex crediti causa debeatur.
[PAULUS, in the fifty-eighth book on the Edict.] It must be held that every obligation is to be regarded as a contract, so that wherever anyone becomes bound, a contract is also deemed to be concluded, even if the debt does not arise from a cause of loan.

Notes

  1. §5.1.20.prexistimandum est — The impersonal passive periphrastic existimandum est ("it must be thought") forms the main clause, governing an accusative with infinitive structure where omnem obligationem is the subject of another gerundive phrase habendam [esse] ("to be regarded").
  2. §5.1.20.pret — The particle et here functions adverbially as "also" or "even" (equivalent to etiam), correlating with ubicunque aliquis obligetur to emphasize that "there too" a contract is deemed to be concluded.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §5.1.20.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.1.20.pr

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