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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §50.17.180.pr

Equivalence of Payment by Order to Direct Payment

Passage 9240 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Dictates that payment made by the order of another has the same effect as if it had been paid to that person themselves.

[IDEM libro septimo decimo ad Plautium. ] §50.17.180.prQuod iussu alterius soluitur, pro eo est, quasi ipsi solutum esset.
[THE SAME, in the seventeenth book on Plautius.] What is paid by the order of another is regarded as if it had been paid to that person himself.

Notes

  1. §50.17.180.prpro eo est, quasi — An expression meaning "it is the same as if" or "it is regarded as." The phrase pro eo (equivalent to that) combined with the conjunction quasi (as if) introducing a subjunctive pluperfect (solutum esset) denotes a legal fiction where an action is treated as having the same effect.
  2. §50.17.180.pripsi — The dative singular of the intensive pronoun ipse. Here, it refers to the "other" (alterius) who gave the order, serving as the indirect dative object of solutum (paid).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §50.17.180.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:50.17.180.pr

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