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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.149.pr

Responsibility for Acts of One from Whom Profit Is Derived

Passage 9209 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states the principle that anyone who derives a profit from another person must answer or be responsible for that person's acts.

[ULPIANUS libro sexagensimo septimo ad edictum. ] §50.17.149.prEx qua persona quis lucrum capit, eius factum praestare debet.
[ULPIANUS, in the sixty-seventh book on the edict.] From whichever person someone derives a profit, they must answer for that person's act.

Notes

  1. §50.17.149.prEx qua persona ... eius — A correlative construction where the relative adjective qua modifies persona inside the relative clause, and the demonstrative eius in the main clause refers back to this persona. Literally, 'from which person someone takes profit, of that [person]...'
  2. §50.17.149.prpraestare — Present infinitive of the transitive verb praesto (to warrant, answer for, take responsibility for). It functions as the complement of debet ('ought to', 'must'), indicating that the beneficiary must assume legal liability for the acts (factum) of the person from whom they benefit.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.149.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.149.pr

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