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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.150.pr

Obligation to Pay the Deficiency When Nothing Is Recovered

Passage 8964 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains that in a stipulation to pay whatever is less than what is recovered from Titius, if nothing is recovered from Titius, the promisor owes the entire amount that Titius owed.

[IDEM libro nono ad legem Iuliam et Papiam. ] §50.16.150.prSi ita a te stipulatus fuero: 'quanto minus a Titio consecutus fuero, tantum dare spondes?', non solet dubitari, quin, si nihil a Titio fuero consecutus, totum debeas quod Titius debuerit.
[THE SAME, from the ninth book on the Lex Iulia et Papia.] If I have stipulated from you as follows: 'Do you promise to give as much less as I shall have recovered from Titius?', it is not usually doubted that, if I have recovered nothing from Titius, you owe the whole of what Titius owed.

Notes

  1. §50.16.150.prquanto minus ... tantum — A correlative expression using the ablative of measure of difference 'quanto' and the accusative demonstrative pronoun 'tantum'. It indicates the contract's intent that the promisor (you) will pay the 'shortfall' subtracted from the total amount after the principal debtor's (Titius') payment.
  2. §50.16.150.prstipulatus fuero — The future perfect of the deponent verb stipulor, used in an active sense meaning 'to stipulate' or 'to exact a promise'. It takes the adverbial accusative pronoun 'ita' to introduce the following quoted formula.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.150.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.150.pr

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