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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.114.pr

Definition of Solvency as Paying Debts in Full

Passage 8928 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It defines the legal concept of "being solvent" (soluendo esse) as requiring the ability to pay the full amount of one's debt.

[IDEM libro quinto decimo ex Cassio. ] §50.16.114.prSoluendo esse nemo intellegitur, nisi qui solidum potest soluere.
[THE SAME, in the fifteenth book of his commentary on Cassius.] No one is understood to be solvent, unless one who can pay the whole amount.

Notes

  1. §50.16.114.prsoluendo esse — The dative of the gerund, soluendo (from solvere), is combined with the verb esse to form an idiomatic expression meaning "to be solvent" (literally, "to be for paying").
  2. §50.16.114.prsolidum — The neuter accusative singular of the adjective solidus is used substantively here to mean "the whole sum" or "the full amount of the debt."
  3. §50.16.114.prnisi qui — The demonstrative pronoun (such as is) serving as the antecedent to the relative pronoun qui is omitted after the conjunction nisi.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.114.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.114.pr

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