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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.187.pr

Scope of Exacted Money Regarding Payment and Delegation

Passage 9001 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Clarifies that the phrase 'exacted money' applies not only to actual payment but also to delegation.

[IDEM libro trigesimo secundo ad edictum. ] §50.16.187.prUerbum 'exactae pecuniae' non solum ad solutionem referendum est, uerum etiam ad delegationem.
[THE SAME, in the thirty-second book on the Edict.] The phrase 'exacted money' must be referred not only to payment, but also to delegation.

Notes

  1. §50.16.187.prexactae pecuniae — Genitive of definition (appositional genitive) qualifying the noun 'uerbum'. It is composed of the genitive form of 'exacta pecunia' (money collected or exacted).
  2. §50.16.187.prdelegationem — Refers to 'delegatio' (delegation) in Roman law, a transaction by which a debtor substitutes a third party to perform the obligation to the creditor, serving as a method of discharge equivalent to actual payment (solutio).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.187.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.187.pr

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