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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §5.1.8.pr

Promise of Prior Debt by Envoy and Forum Exemption

Passage 889 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section states that if an envoy, while on an embassy, promises to pay a debt contracted before the embassy, he cannot be forced to undergo trial in the place where he made that promise.

[GAIUS libro secundo ad edictum prouinciale. ] §5.1.8.prSi quis in legatione constituerit quod ante legationem debuerit, non cogi eum ibi iudicium pati ubi constituerit.
[GAIUS in the second book on the Provincial Edict.] If anyone, while on an embassy, has promised to pay what he owed before the embassy, he is not compelled to undergo trial in the place where he made the promise.

Notes

  1. §5.1.8.prnon cogi eum — The accusative and infinitive construction `non cogi eum` is used as the main clause. This is a common elliptical usage in the Digesta to state a legal rule or opinion, implying 'it is held that' or 'it is determined that'.
  2. §5.1.8.prconstituerit — In this legal context, `constituere` is used in the technical sense of 'to promise' or 'to agree to pay' (pecuniam constituere) at a certain time or place.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §5.1.8.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.1.8.pr

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