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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.32.pr

Interpretation of Underpayment as Including Non-Payment

Passage 8846 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A passage from Paulus stating that the concept of 'less paid' (underpayment) is understood to apply even in cases where nothing at all has been paid.

[PAULUS libro uicensimo quarto ad edictum. ] §50.16.32.pr'Minus solutum' intellegitur etiam si nihil esset solutum.
[PAULUS, in the twenty-fourth book on the Edict.] 'Less paid' is understood even if nothing has been paid.

Notes

  1. 50.16.32.prMinus solutum — A substantivized phrase functioning as the subject, legally referring to the "incomplete performance of an obligation" or "partial payment."
  2. 50.16.32.prnihil esset solutum — Imperfect subjunctive passive. Used in a concessive conditional clause introduced by etiam si ("even if") to express a hypothetical situation (where nothing at all has been paid) in relation to the main verb intellegitur.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.32.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.32.pr

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