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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.16.47.pr

Equivalence and Legal Force of Release and Payment

Passage 8861 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

A statement by Paulus indicating that the word 'release' has the same force as the word 'payment'.

[PAULUS libro quinquagensimo sexto ad edictum. ] §50.16.47.pr'Liberationis' uerbum eandem uim habet quam solutionis.
[PAULUS, in the fifty-sixth book on the Edict.] The word 'release' has the same force as that of 'payment'.

Notes

  1. §50.16.47.pr'Liberationis' uerbum — 'Liberationis' is a genitive of definition (appositional genitive) modifying 'uerbum', meaning "the word 'release' (liberatio)."
  2. §50.16.47.prquam solutionis — The noun 'uerbum' is omitted after the comparative conjunction 'quam'; the full structure is understood as 'eandem uim habet quam [uerbum] solutionis' (has the same force as [the word] of 'payment').

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.16.47.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.16.47.pr

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